14th January 2010
LSE Health has been awarded a contract by the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (CHRE) to establish and maintain the new CHRE International Observatory on the Regulation of Health Professionals. The objectives of the Observatory are to advance understanding, enable learning across countries and facilitate the spread of good practice in the regulation of health professionals internationally. The Observatory's work programme will include country reporting, commissioned research, a rapid response facility to provide information and policy advice, and the production of analytical reports on key topics such as revalidation, fitness to practise, trends in regulatory reform and the impact of payment reform on professional behaviour. Observatory research will also address broader topics relating to the identification and adoption of good practice and to how country context affects the potential for regulatory reform. Working closely with CHRE, the work at LSE Health will be led by Professors Alistair McGuire and Elias Mossialos and will be coordinated by Thomas Foubister. Professor Julian Le Grand (Chair of LSE Health) will sit on the Observatory's strategy group and Professor Robert Baldwin of the Department of Law will be an advisor to Observatory research activity.