In Focus: Regulating the regulator

The Professional Standards Authority (PSA) for Health and Social Care has released its 2019/20 performance review of the General Optical Council (GOC). In the review, the PSA found the GOC met the requirements for 16 out of its 18 standards of good regulation but failed to adequately meet its requirements to maintain and publish an accurate register and process fitness to practise cases in a timely manner.

Despite failings in these two areas the GOC has welcomed the PSA’s findings, and explained that it was implementing measures to improve its performance in relation to the areas where it did not meet regulatory standards.