by admin | Nov 5, 2025 | Legal, Social work
When healthcare professionals appear before fitness to practise panels, their level of insight often plays a central role in determining both current impairment and sanction. Panels expect registrants to reflect on the concerns raised, understand their implications,...
by admin | Jul 30, 2025 | Legal
Fitness to practise investigations play a critical role in ensuring that healthcare professionals in the UK meet the standards required to deliver safe and effective care. However, when these investigations extend over many months or even years, they can inflict...
by admin | Jul 14, 2025 | Legal
Accepted outcomes will become a new, paper-based route for resolving fitness to practise concerns without a full panel hearing in what the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (PSA) describes as “fundamental changes to how regulators...
by admin | Jun 17, 2025 | Legal
We look at the Health and Care Professions Council’s (HCPC) changes to its Sanctions Policy and what this may mean for health care professionals regulated by it. HCPC’s Sanctions Policy Overhaul: What It Means for Health and Care Professionals The Health and Care...
by admin | May 19, 2025 | Legal, Social work
What is remediation? In the context of fitness to practise, remediation refers to the process by which a professional—often in a healthcare or related regulated field—takes deliberate, demonstrable steps to address concerns that have been raised about their conduct,...
by admin | May 5, 2025 | Legal, Social work
What is remediation? In the context of fitness to practise, remediation refers to the process by which a professional—often in a healthcare or related regulated field—takes deliberate, demonstrable steps to address concerns that have been raised about their conduct,...
