Fitness to Practise Guides for UK Healthcare Professionals
Guides to UK healthcare and social work regulation
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This is a library of guides on UK healthcare and social work regulation, written for registrants who are facing a concern, a complaint or a fitness to practise investigation.
The guides explain how each regulator’s process actually works, stage by stage: what a first letter means, who decides, what happens at case examiner level, what a hearing involves, and what the available outcomes are. They also set out what insight, reflection and remediation mean in practice, and what kind of evidence carries weight.
They cover the GMC, NMC, GDC, GPhC, HCPC, GOC, GCC, GOsC and the social work regulators. Filter by regulator below, or search. Everything here is free to read and is general information, not legal advice on any individual case.
Dr Shehzad IqbalFounder, course author and facilitatorMBBS, MRCS, MRCGP
Ludmila UpenieceBusiness development and supportPsychology, UEL London
In short: These guides explain how a complaint, an investigation or a fitness to practise process works with each UK healthcare regulator, what the regulator expects from you, and which CPD course fits your situation, whether you are responding to a concern or meeting your CPD. All the CPD courses linked from these guides are by Probity & Ethics, written by Dr Shehzad Iqbal and offered since 2020.
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