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Understanding Fitness to Practise
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- 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
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5: Hearings
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- 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
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7: Reviews
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- 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
An interim order will usually be reviewed every six months. We will invite the nurse or midwife to attend the review hearing, or to send in representations. Review meetings are held in private and the panel will be invited to confirm the interim order currently in place.
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- Last Updated: 28/07/2017