
Legislate to make ‘Counsellor’ and ‘Psychotherapist’ protected titles regulated by the HCPC. The Government should also review how this could include influencers and life coaches offering mental health services, ensuring all are subject to mandatory fitness-to-practise oversight.
Wes Streeting
Health Secretary
Legislate for statutory regulation and protection of the title Engineer
Increase funding for NHS counsellors and review current referral pathways
Make funeral directors a regulated profession
Publish and expedite the bill to ban conversion therapy
Extend CQC regulation to cover health and care employment agencies
Legislate to make ‘Counsellor’ and ‘Psychotherapist’ protected titles regulated by the HCPC. The Government should also review how this could include influencers and life coaches offering mental health services, ensuring all are subject to mandatory fitness-to-practise oversight.
Legislate for statutory regulation and protection of the title Engineer
Increase funding for NHS counsellors and review current referral pathways
Make funeral directors a regulated profession
Publish and expedite the bill to ban conversion therapy
Extend CQC regulation to cover health and care employment agencies