Bad Apples? Bad Barrels? Or bad cellars? Antecedents and processes of professional misconduct in UK health and care 03 Nov 2017 By analysing thousands of fitness to practise decisions, this ground-breaking study provides...
Categorisation of fitness to practise data 22 Dec 2017 A description of UK health and care professional regulators’ categorisation of fitness to practise...
Professional identity and the regulator's role - an overview 07 Feb 2018 Does the regulator create or validate professional identity? This paper draws together the...
Sexual behaviours between health and care practitioners: where does the boundary lie? 08 May 2018 We have observed that regulators' fitness to practise panels may treat sexual misconduct between...
Telling patients the truth when something has gone wrong - how have professional regulators encouraged professionals to be candid to patients? 08 Jan 2019 This paper sets out the progress professional regulators we oversee have made in embedding the...
The role of patients and service users in ensuring the safety of the care they receive 17 May 2019 Can patients be effective in maintaining their own safety? We wanted to explore further the role of...
From public hearings to consensual disposal - insights from the decision-making literature 18 Jun 2019 As part of our ongoing work on regulatory reform, particularly of fitness to practise proceedings...
Sexual misconduct in health and social care: understanding types of abuse and perpetrators’ moral mindsets 05 Sep 2019 Using analysed records in 232 fitness to practise cases where sexual misconduct was found proven by...
Review of research into health and care professional regulation 28 Jul 2020 We commissioned Cardiff University to undertake a review of research into health and care...
Patient and public perspectives on future fitness to practise processes 13 Aug 2020 We wanted to explore with patients and the public their perspective on future fitness to practise...