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- Guiding principles
- 1: Screening
- 2: Interim Orders
- 3: Investigations
- 4: Case Examiners
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5: Hearings
- All guides
- Drafting charges
- Notice of our hearings and meetings
- Disclosure
- Hearing fitness to practise allegations together
- Managing cases before the Fitness to Practise Committee
- Preliminary meetings
- Voluntary Removal
- Consensual panel determination
- Cancelling hearings
- Offering no evidence
- Dealing with Cases at Hearings or Meetings
- Materials placed before panels at final hearings
- Proceeding in absence
- Public and private
- Postponing or adjourning hearings
- Incorrect or fraudulent entry decision making at hearings
- Making decisions on dishonesty charges
- Constitution of panels
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6: Sanctions
- All guides
- What is our sanctions guidance?
- Sanctions, professional standards, and our statutory purpose
- Decision making factors
- The sanctions
- Cases with particular risks for public confidence
- Directing reviews of substantive orders
- Interim orders after a sanction is imposed
- What orders are available for fraudulent or incorrect entry?
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7: Reviews
- All guides
- Reviewable decisions
- Interim order reviews
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Substantive order reviews
- Standard reviews before expiry
- Early review
- Exceptional cases: changing orders with immediate effect at a standard review
- Review of striking-off orders
- New allegations
- Breach of substantive orders
- Reviews where an interim order is in place
- Allowing orders to expire when a nurse or midwife’s registration will lapse
- 8: Appeals and restoration
3: Investigations
We protect the public by investigating serious concerns about a nurse or midwife's fitness to practise which could place patients at risk or negatively impact public confidence in the nursing and midwifery professions. We also investigate concerns about whether the entry of an individual nurse or midwife on our register may be incorrect, or may have been made as a result of fraud. Our aim in investigating these concerns is to allow our decision makers to make the right decision at the earliest opportunity. Investigations play a vital role in our overarching objective, which is the protection of the public.
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- Last updated: 28/07/2017