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- 8: Appeals and restoration
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Understanding Fitness to Practise
- All guides
- Using fitness to practise
- Allegations we consider
- How we determine seriousness
- Why we screen cases
- When we use interim orders
- Investigations
- Examining cases
- How we manage cases
- Meetings and hearings
- Resolving cases by agreement
- What sanctions are and when we might use them
- Remediation and insight
- 1: Screening
- 2: Interim Orders
- 3: Investigations
- 4: Case Examiners
-
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
- 6: Sanctions
-
7: Reviews
- All guides
- Reviewable decisions
- Interim order reviews
-
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
