• Scott Reeves Named to Advisory Council of National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education
• Call open for individual round of Teaching Development Grants
• New collaborative project to identify methods of effective working for all care homes
• Interprofessional Education for Collaboration Learning How to Improve Health from Interprofessional Models across the Continuum of Education to Practice Workshop Summary. Report the IOM's Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education.
• National partners make commitment to join up health and social care
• The Department of Health has issued a Press release about the Government's Care Bill to give people peace of mind in hospital, care homes and their own homes
• Higher Education Academy Call open for EQUIP change programme
• Health and Care Professions Council Education annual report 2012 published
• New Council appointed to lead the NMC
• Call open for Digital Literacies in the Disciplines
• Department of Health launches competition to designate Academic Health Science Centres
• Bookings open for the Annual Health and Social Care Conference
• Risk and Reward in Collaborative Care
• Development of a questionnaire to assess interprofessional collaboration between two different care levels
• Interprofessional Learning within the Academic and Practice Placement Setting
• Patient Voices
• HEA launches partnership awards
• Nominations For New CAIPE Board Members
• Collaborating with Japanese Colleagues
• Collaborating across Scottish Universities
• Collaborating with the Police
• CAIPE Student Poster Competition 2013
• Multi-agency adult protection group promotes stronger links
• Scott Reeves Call for greater collaboration within the IPE Community
• Health and Social Care Reader Competition
• Interprofessional Education Paper makes an IMPACT
• Calling all CAIPE Student members
• The CAIPE Student Membership fee goes up to £10 from 1st April 2013
• Press Release: CAIPE 's Response to the Francis Inquiry Report
• The GMC has published a research report identifying best practice in the selection of medical students
• Health and Care Professions Council undertaking a survey of education providers
• IPE PORTAL Advances Interprofessional Collaborative Practice Education
• A Peek on the 3rd Indonesian Health Professional Students' Session
• The Shape of Training Review.
• New book and review : Handbook for Interprofessional Practice in the Human Services edited by Brian Littlechild & Roger Smith, London & New York, Pearson Education Limited, 2013,
• From the USA: Announcing National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education Operations Team
• On 31 January 2013 GENEVA - WHO released a resource package of practical tools specifically aimed at improving patient safety in hospitals in developing countries.
• A Common Language for Interprofessional Education: The World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)
• Planning an interprofessional Event? Read this helpful guidance from the US
• How to Foster Interprofessional Collaboration Between Physicians and Nurses
• Interprofessional Education: a National Audit. Report to Health Workforce Australia'
• The Higher Education Academy (HEA) has opened the call for student advisers to join its new Student Advisory Forum
• HEA Teaching Development Grants - Collaborative Scheme
• The Department of Health and Department for Work and Pensions Student Placements
• The Interprofessional in Australian Health Professional Education Progress Report
• Call for Research articles
• Interprofessional working between the mental health services and the criminal justice system
• CAIPE's response to HCPC consultation on service user involvement in education and training
• Change of name for the CHRE
• Patients Association report
• University staff invited to take part in SEDA survey
• 12 November 2012 Press release
• Brief summary of Chair's Event
• New CAIPE Chair elect

Regulating health care professionals

The Law Commissions of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are seeking views on the regulation of health care professionals in the UK and social workers in England. In their first joint consultation, the Commissions are asking how a new legal framework would: give the regulators increased flexibility in the use of their powers while ensuring public accountability; enable them to ensure proper standards of professional education, conduct and practice; and have at its heart a duty on the regulators to protect the public.

The consultation paper makes provisional proposals which seek to simplify and modernise the law and establish a streamlined, transparent and responsive system of regulation of health care professionals, and in England only, the regulation of social workers.
The paper makes proposals and asks questions on the following areas: 

The registration and renewal of registration of professionals, student registers, registration appeals, protected titles and protected functions. 

• How the regulators oversee the quality of pre-registration and post-registration education and training. 
• How the regulators set standards for professional conduct and practice, and ensure ongoing practice standards (for example, through revalidation). 
• The investigation and adjudication of fitness to practise case. 
• The role of the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence 
• The regulation of business premises and activities 
• The governance arrangements of the regulators, including the size and composition of Councils 
• The systems through which the regulators can be held to account, including the roles of the Privy Council, Government and Parliament, and duties to consult the public. 

This is a tripartite project between the Law Commission, the Scottish Law Commission and the Northern Ireland Law Commission.
Closing date: 31 May 2012

For full details go to: www.lawcom.gov.uk, www.scotlawcom.gov.uk and www.nilawcommission.gov.uk