Harry Cayton CBE BA BPhil DipAnth DipHA FFPH

Harry Cayton is an internationally recognised advisor on professional regulation and governance. 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. From 2002-7 he was National Director for Patients and the Public at the Department of Health and before that chief executive of the Alzheimer’s Society. He chaired several enquiries for the UK government and the NHS Information Governance Board. In 2015 he was awarded the CBE by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for services to health and regulation reform. He is a Fellow through Distinction of the Faculty of Public Health and received an Outstanding Leadership Award from the World Health Executive Forum in 2018.

Harry Cayton has led reviews and advised regulators and governments in the UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia and Hong Kong and Indonesia. The Cayton Report on the Health Professions Act in British Columbia was published in April 2019, giving rise to a new Heath Professions and Occupations Act in 2022. His governance review for the Law Society of British Columbia in 2021 has been influential on the new Legal Services Act and across Canada. As well as with health regulators he has worked with the regulators of real estate, vehicle sales, insurance, engineering, geoscience, and surveying. He is advising the World Health Organisation and is a member of the Oversight Board of the Journal of Medical Regulation and of the International Advisory Group of the Australian Health Practitioners Regulatory Agency.  He is International Consultant to the Saudi Commission on Health Specialties and a Senior Advisor to The Regulators' Practice.