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Written question asked by Tulip Siddiq (Labour) on Friday, 19 April 2024, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 23 April 2024. It was answered by Andrew Stephenson (Conservative) on Tuesday, 23 April 2024 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.

Hypnosis and Psychiatry: Regulation

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that people operating as (a) hypnotherapists and (b) psychotherapists are (i) registered and (ii) regulated.

Answer

Hypnotherapists and Psychotherapists are not statutorily regulated, and there are no current plans to introduce statutory regulation for either profession. The Professional Standards Authority for health and social care operates an accredited voluntary registers programme, providing a proportionate means of assurance for unregulated professions, by setting standards for organisations holding voluntary registers. There are currently two accredited registers related to hypnotherapy, and twelve accredited registers related to psychotherapy.

The Government keeps the professions subject to statutory regulation under review, and in 2022, published the consultation Healthcare regulation: deciding when statutory regulation is appropriate, which sought views on the criteria used to decide when regulation is necessary, and whether there are any unregulated professions that should be brought into statutory regulation. The Government will publish its response to the consultation in due course.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
22768
Session
2023-24
Subjects
Hypnosis Psychiatry Registration Regulation
Link
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