Introduction
Welcome to the professional Standards Unit (PSU). The PSU is a permanent unit based within the College premises and which oversees three core activities:

Continuing Professional Development
Audit and Quality
Professional Performance

The unit was established in 2001 and has four members of staff working with an appointed Director of Professional Standards whose term of office is three years.

Accountability and communication
The Director of Professional Standards is accountable to the President, its officers and College Council and will manage the Professional Standards Unit and set its strategic objectives. Members of the College will inform these objectives.

Discipline specific advice to the PSU will be requested through the network of Specialty Advisory Committees (SACs) and cross-discipline issues through the network of Regional Councils.

The Professional Standards Unit will work closely with the Professional Performance Panel as well as other agencies such as National Clinical Assessment, CPA, NICE, National Confidential Enquiry Consortium, National Collaborating Centres, National Patients Safety Agency, Department of Health, specialist societies, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and the GMC.

Professional Performance Panel
Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
Care Quality Commission
CPA
General Medical Council
National Clinical Assessment Service 
National Collaborating Centres
National Patient Safety Agency
NICE