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The High Court has delivered an important reminder to healthcare regulators that interim orders are protective measures, not a substitute for progressing a fitness to practise investigation.

Fitness to practise appeals explained: understand your rights, strict deadlines, and why early legal advice is crucial to avoid adverse findings and protect your career.

An overview of the NMC’s midwifery fitness to practise themes, helping midwives understand common risks, strengthen safe practice, and prevent avoidable concerns.

Court of Appeal ruling clarifies how the GMC’s Sanctions Guidance should be applied in fitness to practise cases, especially involving non‑clinical misconduct, confirming a structured but evaluative approach for MPTS and other UK healthcare regulators.

Excessive fitness to practise referrals cause stress and anxiety for UK health professionals. Learn how to protect yourself and when to seek expert FtP defence.

High Court ruling warns that attending fitness to practise hearings without specialist legal support can lead to unfair outcomes.

Our 2025 fitness to practise review highlights key FtP issues, major regulatory trends and the strong outcomes we achieved for clients this year.

How fitness to practise panels can assess genuine insight when a registrant denies allegations and offers no apology, balancing fairness with public protection.

Fitness to practise investigations help uphold UK care standards, but prolonged cases can cause serious personal and professional harm to healthcare professionals.

Accepted outcomes create a paper-based route for resolving fitness to practise cases; examiners may impose measures if offers go unanswered.

Interim orders are a crucial regulatory tool used early in fitness to practise investigations but with potentially significant impacts on healthcare professionals’ practice, careers, and personal well-being.

We look at the importance of remediation in fitness to practise, what remediation means and how it can impact on the outcome of an investigation or hearing.

In this case our client, F, faced fitness to practise proceedings before the NMC dating back to 2018.

The NMC’s insights identify factors that increase the risk of referrals and regulatory action for nurses and midwives, and explore ways to reduce the risk of sanctions.

When you are contacted by your regulator to inform you that an allegation has been made against you – how should you respond?