About us
The Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (the PSA) promotes the health, safety and wellbeing of patients, service users and the public. It does this by improving the regulation of people who work in health and social care and running the Accredited Registers programme for roles not regulated by law. The PSA is an independent body, accountable to the UK Parliament.
The PSA’s work includes:
- reviewing the work of the 10 regulators of health and care professionals
- accrediting organisations that register practitioners in unregulated health and care roles, also known as the Accredited Registers programme
- undertaking research and developing policy advice on the regulation of health and social care professionals