Harry Cayton CBE BA BPhil DipAnth DipHA FFPH

Harry Cayton is an internationally recognised advisor on professional regulation and governance. Along with colleagues at the Professional Standards Authority, he developed the principles of Right-touch regulation, which have been adopted by professional regulators around the world. Between 2007 and 2018 he was chief executive of the Professional Standards Authority in the UK. Before that, from 2002-7 he was National Director for Patients and the Public at the Department of Health and from1991-2002 chief executive of the Alzheimer’s Society. He has chaired several reviews for the UK government and was founder chair of the NHS Information Governance Board. In 2015 he was awarded the CBE by Her Majesty the Queen for services to health and regulation reform. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians and received an Outstanding Leadership Award from the World Health Executive Form in 2018. Harry Cayton has led many reviews and inquiries and advised regulators and governments in the UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, India, Indonesia and Bhutan. The Cayton Report on the Health Professions Act in British Columbia was published by the Minister of Heath in April 2019, giving rise to a new BC Heath Professions and Occupations Act in 2022. He carried out a governance review of the Law Society of British Columbia in 2021. He is currently working with number of regulatory organisations in Canada and elsewhere and with the World Health Organisation. He is a member of the Oversight Board of the Journal of Medical Regulation, the WHO Technical Expert Group on Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine Workforce and of the International Advisory Group of AHPRA. He is International Consultant to the Saudi Commission on Health Specialties. He is a Senior Advisor to The Regulators Practice in Canada, a consortium of consultants established to support the particular governance challenges regulators face. He was recently described as; The preeminent thought leader in the field.