Fitness to Practise Hearing (Healthcare)
Axiom Stone are specialists concerning Fitness to Practise hearings in almost all healthcare related professions. Depending on the profession, a regulatory body will govern that profession usually by protecting the public through monitoring and maintaining standards and ethics entrenched in code of conducts.
Usually, procedures will be similar whether it concerns an initial investigation following a complaint/concern or fitness to practise hearing. The regulatory body bringing the proceedings will have a qualified lawyer representing their views and the Panel that will preside over the hearing will consist of independent Panel Members. If you are a professional regulated by any one of the following regulatory bodies, then please contact us:
- General Chiropractic Council (GCC) regulating chiropractors
- General Dental Council (GDC) regulating dentists, dental nurses, dental technicians, dental hygienists, dental therapists, clinical dental technicians and orthodontic therapists
- General Medical Council (GMC) regulating doctors
- General Optical Council (GOC) regulating optometrists, dispensing opticians, student opticians and optical businesses
- General Osteopathic Council (GOsC) regulating osteopaths
- Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) regulating nurses and midwives
- Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) regulating pharmacists in England, Wales and Scotland.
- Health Professions Council (HPC), regulating:
- Arts therapists
- Biomedical scientists
- Chiropodists / podiatrists
- Clinical scientists
- Dietitians
- Hearing aid dispensers
- Occupational therapists
- Operating department practitioners
- Orthoptists
- Paramedics
- Physiotherapists
- Practitioner psychologists
- Prosthetists / Orthotists
- Radiographers
- Speech and language therapists Social Workers and Care Workers (announcement made by the HPC on 26 July 2010)