Definition Of Fitness To Practise

Serious or persistent failures to follow this guidance will put your registration at risk.

Definition of fitness to practise. A question of fitness to practise is likely to arise if. Fitness to practise panel. Maintaining appropriate standards of proficiency ensuring you are of good health and good character and you are adhering to principles of good practice set out in our various standards guidance and advice. Means the fitness to practise process set out in this act to address issues of incapacity.

Being fit to practise requires a nurse midwife or nursing associate to have the skills knowledge health and character to do their job safely and effectively. Themselves to indicate a fitness to practise problem. In practical terms this means. Means a meeting before a fitness to practise panel in fitness to practise proceedings.

Good medical practice puts it this way. A panel which convenes in the uk to hear evidence provided by witnesses and the doctor in question and decides whether a doctor s fitness to practise is impaired. What is fitness to practise. The code sets out the professional standards that nurses midwives and nursing associates must uphold in order to be registered to practise in the uk.

We describe fitness to practise as a person s suitability to be on the register without restrictions.