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Higher and Degree apprenticeships

Information to help education providers meet our regulatory requirements when setting up Degree Apprenticeships

Revisions to our standards of education and training

Guidance about our revised standard, which came into effect in September 2017. We are currently undertaking a rolling review of how programmes meet the revised standards.

Changes to the level of qualification for entry to the Register for paramedics

Information about this change, including how it will affect existing paramedic programmes

Service user and carer involvement

What we are looking for when you involve service users and carers in your programme

Social media in professional practice

Blog by Katherine Timms, Head of Policy and Standards, explaining how professionals on our register can use social media appropriately.

CQC and Monitor

Regulating health and social care services in England and NHS foundation trusts

Professional indemnity - your questions answered

Guidelines on insurance can be tricky, so we've compiled some of the questions our registrants commonly ask

New threshold for paramedic registration

In 2018, we raised the level of qualification for paramedics’ registration. Previously paramedics needed to achieve ‘Equivalent to Certificate of Higher Education’ to become registered. Currently they need to achieve ’Bachelor degree with honours’.