Non-Medical Revalidation
The Scottish Government is working to achieve the proposals of the White Paper "Trust Assurance and Safety - The Regulation of Healthcare Professionals". One of the proposals was ".. to ensure that all statutorily regulated health professions have in place arrangements for the revalidation of their professional registration through which they can periodically demonstrate their continued fitness to practise."
The Scottish Government Health Department is currently in the process of implementing objective and periodic reaffirmation of continuing fitness to practise for all non-medical healthcare professionals. Nurses will be the first to be implemented in 2010-2011.