Working in consultation with the PSRBs is essential to guarantee that students meet regulatory standards thereby ensuring a high standard of care and patient safety.

PSRB Seminar 2009

The most recent PSRB seminar took place in May 2009, during which representatives from the 16 health and social care professions involved in ALPS discussed how ALPS processes and outputs might be embedded and progressed in the future. Read more about the day here.

Seminars are arranged with the PSRBs every one to two years. These sessions are used to discuss developmental issues of the ALPS programme which may need to be informed by the professional and statutory and regulatory organisations. Representatives contribute their views, and issues of relevance are shared between the PSRBs and ALPS.

The participation of PSRBs is critical when it comes to achieving ALPS’ aim of increased interprofessional collaboration. Whilst final assessment and signing off of students as being competent will still take place by a designated registrant from the same profession, ALPS is looking at ways in which formative assessment of some of the generic skills (e.g. communication) might be shared across a range of assessors in various health and social care professions.

For links to the websites of the Professional and Statutory Regulatory Bodies working with ALPS click here