scholarly journals The Development of Self-Regulation in Four UK Professional Communities

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stan Lester
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Prior Experience ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Professional Communities ◽  
Professional Groups ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Professional Self

Professional self-regulation is often conceptualised as involving the delegation of state powers to professional groups.  An examination of four groups in the United Kingdom provides examples of self-regulation that have developed, with one partial exception, without the support of any statutory framework. Some common aspects of self-regulation are identified along with some differences that relate to how the professions have evolved, and to their operating contexts. Significant influences include how the profession is situated among adjacent groups, the degree of demand from clients and employers for qualified practitioners, and potentially whether the occupation is suitable as an initial career or requires  a measure of maturity and prior experience. An argument is made for greater recognition, both through practical examples and in academic discourse of self-regulation that is initiated and furthered voluntarily through negotiation between professions, their members and their clients rather than via legislative powers. 

Regulating the regulators: the rise of the United Kingdom Professional Standards Authority

2018 ◽  
pp. 93-116
Author(s):  
Judith Allsop ◽  
Kathryn Jones
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Professional Standards ◽  
Corporate Management ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Professional Regulation ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Management Techniques

In the United Kingdom reforms to professional regulation have been introduced to enhance public protection. This chapter accounts for changes from 2002 to 2016 with the introduction of a meta-regulator to oversee nine statutory professional Councils. It examines the expansion of the role of the meta-regulator and reforms within the professional councils themselves. It draws on data collected to show increases in costs and activity and explains the shift from self-regulation to top-down governance using corporate management techniques of audit and review. It demonstrates that the reforms have been evolutionary and that further reform is ongoing.

scholarly journals Professional Self-Regulation and the Public Interest in Canada

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracey L. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Consumer Choice ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Regulatory Change ◽  
The Public ◽  
Business Interests ◽  
Professional Groups ◽  
Professional Self ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Definition Of

The regulation of professional groups has often been justified as being in the public interest. In recent decades, policymakers in Anglo-American countries have questioned whether self-regulating professions have truly served the public interest, or whether they have merely acted in their own interests. This paper draws on legislative records and policy reports to explore meanings attached to professional self-regulation and the public interest in Canada by state actors over the past 150 years. The findings point to a shift in the definition of the public interest away from service quality and professional interests, towards efficiency, human rights, consumer choice, and in some contexts business interests. Changing views of the public interest contribute to regulatory change.

Nursing associate apprenticeship – a descriptive case study narrative of impact, innovation and quality improvement

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 751-766
Author(s):  
Marion Taylor ◽  
Cariona Flaherty
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Descriptive Case Study ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Is Value

PurposeThe purpose of this article is to explore how one higher education institution (HEI) has embraced the apprenticeship agenda and is successfully providing an apprenticeship programme for nursing associates (NA) a new profession within health and social care in the United Kingdom.Design/methodology/approachThis is a descriptive case study narrative about one programme from one HEI, selected for its relevance for the subject area of apprenticeships. This descriptive approach allows the provision of apprenticeships within HEI to be explored in depth by one institution.FindingsThis case study identifies the considerable value of apprenticeships within HEI for the students, the employers and the HEI. It also identifies that there are challenges within this. These findings will be of interest to those entering into the apprenticeship arena, especially within healthcare, and may inform an academic discourse in this area.Research limitations/implicationsIt is acknowledged that this case study does not seek to compare apprenticeships with other programmes. However, there is value in providing an academic narrative around the challenges of this provision which will be informative for others developing higher apprenticeships in the United Kingdom or similar delivery of apprenticeship models internationally.Practical implicationsThere is value in providing an academic narrative around the challenges of this provision which will be informative for others developing higher apprenticeships in the UK or similar delivery of apprenticeship models internationallySocial implicationsThese findings will be of interest to those entering into the apprenticeship arena, especially within healthcare, and will inform the academic discourse in this area.Originality/valueThis is original work and provides a new body of knowledge to the inform HEIs engaging with the relatively new context of higher and degree apprenticeships, as well as the new role within healthcare of the nursing associate.

scholarly journals How Mainstream Medicine Sees Photodynamic Therapy in the United Kingdom

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (Suppl_2) ◽  
pp. S-69-S-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen G. Bown
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Photodynamic Therapy ◽  
Conventional Medicine ◽  
Study Groups ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Professional Groups ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Mainstream Medicine ◽  
Different Types

Although photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been used successfully to treat an assortment of different types of cancer, it has yet to reach the level of mainstream medicine on either side of the Atlantic. Unsubstantiated claims of PDT’s efficacy in the past may be part of the reason for this. However, perhaps the main obstacle to PDT’s endorsement by conventional medicine is the limited number of high-quality randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing it with relevant comparators for all meaningful outcomes, including effectiveness, safety, adverse events, quality of life, survival, and cost. Based on a Health Technology Assessment report on the current status of PDT and consultation with professional groups, specialist societies, and clinical study groups in the United Kingdom, this article explores the current clinical guidelines for use of PDT in cancer treatment and the dearth of supportive data from RCTs.

An Adaptive Neural Network for the Cost Estimation of E-Learning Projects in the United Kingdom

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 54-71
Author(s):  
Raul Valverde
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Cost Estimation ◽  
Cost Model ◽  
Prior Experience ◽  
Adaptive Neural Network ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Development Costs ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Learning Development

This research aims to address the problems of estimating e-Learning development costs particularly within the United Kingdom. Hundreds of managers with no prior experience of managing e-Learning development often find themselves needing to produce cost estimations for e-Learning development. The lack of prior experience in e-Learning development means that these managers will not be able to apply structured expert judgement to their cost estimations and the risk of inaccurate estimations will be high, with all the subsequent problems this will bring with it. Although an e-learning project cost model that serves this purpose has been developed in the past by the author, the previous e-learning model was based on multi regression analysis that has the great limitation of losing its relevancy as the industry changes, the new proposed model uses an adaptive neural network model that copes with changes as it can be trained easily with new data and this allows the management to keep more accurate cost estimates that reflect market changes.

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