BASRaT Executive Committee

Contact the Executive Committee

Individual BASRaT Officials are listed below with details of where to direct your particular query. Please note that the contacts below are volunteers and work part time. We will however, endeavour to get back to you as soon as we can.

Executive Committee Members

Chair of the Committee

Dr Allan Munro - committeechair@basrat.org

PO Box 627
Manchester
M14 0PN

Secretary

Dr Hollie White - secretary@basrat.org

Medical School Building
Warwick Medical School
Gibbet Hill Road
Coventry
CV4 7AJ

Quality Officer

Dr Chris Wilcox - qualityofficer@basrat.org

Dearne 020
The University of Hull
Cottingham Road
Kingston upon Hull
Hull
HU6 7RX

Student Liaison Officer

Jonty Ashton - students@basrat.org

Don 010
University of Hull
Cottingham road
Kingston upon Hull
Hull
HU6 7RX

Institution Link Officer

Dr Adam Naylor - adam@basrat.org

PO Box 627
Manchester
M14 0PN

CPD Officer

Dr Allan Munro - cpd@basrat.org

PO Box 627
Manchester
M14 0PN

Governance

BASRaT is a not-for-profit unincorporated Association with an organisational structure designed to ensure the ability to carry out the multiple functions of accreditation, membership and registration effectively and efficiently, whilst still meeting the current and future standards of a Professional Standards Authority in Health and Social Care accredited register holder. BASRaT is split into two main parts; the overall governance and strategic direction is overseen by the elected Executive Committee and this is supported by the employed operational side of the Chief Executives Office. The operational side of BASRaT supports the Executive Committee and provides continuity of expertise in all the key operational areas.

In its operation, the elected Executive Committee follows the BASRaT constitution. The make-up, along with the terms and conditions of the Executive Committee are designed to maximise effectiveness and efficiency whilst minimising undue individual influence and conflicts of interest. The Executive Committee, which has overall strategic oversight of the organisation, makes a full report to members at the Annual General Meeting where they answer questions that arise from that years activities; accountability and transparency are key to Executive Committee functioning. As part of this, all key decisions made by the Executive Committee have to involve the lay members of the Executive Committee. The structural conditions the Executive Committee operates under also work to ensure integrity e.g. the rules around committee turn-over. BASRaT also has a separate Ethics Committee which provides an independent oversight and complaints function for the BASRaT Executive Committee. In addition, link officer roles, which recruit from a purposefully wide demographic of BASRaT membership, are invited to and do attend the Executive Committee meetings; this allows additional direct observation of Executive Committee operations. Other policies that determine how the Executive Committee operates:

Conflicts of Interest Policy

BASRaT Constitution

Terms of reference

The employees in the CE office are not part of the Executive Committee and follow published frameworks in their operational duties. All key accreditation and registration processes are governed by clear frameworks, minimising the potential for subjective decisions that could affect either of these areas. Membership functions are a soft process and largely reflect the development of an open, transparent, effective and safe healthcare occupation. If a potential registrant does not meet registration standards, it is not administratively possible for them to proceed to registration. Additionally, the BASRaT registration exam offers an additional, objective, quality assurance step in the registration process.

The Professional Standards Authority in Health and Social Care (PSA) provides oversight of BASRaT’s governance and operations. The PSA assess both Statutory Regulators and Accredited Register holders annually and publish a report on their performance against the PSA standards:

Professional Standards Authority in Health and Social Care Annual reports