What is right-touch regulation?
Where the idea came from, what it actually says, how governments use it, and the strongest criticisms. A primer in plain English.
Explainers & analysis
Pieces written for this site. Each analysis labels its claims as evidence, survey or assertion, and every piece links to its sources.
Explainers
The background, in plain English.Nothing here for these filters yet.
Analysis
Argued pieces that connect reforms to the evidence.Four countries, one direction: the layered psychology workforce
In Australia and Ontario, the route to the protected psychologist title is set to get shorter. New Zealand has created a registered assistant tier, and the UK assures a wider psychological workforce through voluntary registers. We have found no outcome evidence for any of it yet.
Permanent before evaluated
In Australia, pharmacy scope reforms have been made permanent before any independent evaluation was published. In the UK, physician associates were scaled up with no study of safety incidents. We think that is the strongest, evidence-based criticism of these reforms.
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The case for
The strongest version of the reformers' argument, from their own sources.The case for top-of-scope reform
The strongest version of the argument for letting nurses, pharmacists and others do more, written from the reformers' own sources.
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