Supporting guidance and procedures
The work of the screeners and fitness to practise committees is assisted by a number of guidance documents, practice notes and policies.
- Conditions of Practice Order Guidance
- Guidance for the Health Committee on Formulating Conditions of Practice Orders
- Guidance for Screeners and Screeners Report Template
- Guidance for the Fitness to Practise Committees on Imposing Interim Suspension Orders
- Guidance for the Professional Conduct Committee on Drafting Determinations
- Hearings and Sanctions Guidance
- Initial Closure Procedure
- Investigating Committee Decision-Making Guidance
- Standard Legal Advice to Investigating Committee in Unacceptable Professional Conduct Cases
- Threshold Criteria for Unacceptable Conduct
- Guidance on the arrangements and procedure for restoration hearings
- Practice Note: Questioning Witnesses
- IC, HC and PCC Practice Note: Undertakings
- Informal Procedure for Consultation with the Parties on Draft Conditions of Practice
- PCC Practice Note – Consensual Disposal: Rule 8
- PCC Practice Note: Evidence
- PCC Practice Note: Postponement and Adjournment Requests
- PCC Practice Note: Preparing for PCC Hearings
- PCC Practice Note: Proceeding in the Absence of the Registrant
- PCC Practice Note: Requirements on Expert Witnesses
- PCC and HC Practice Note: Admission of Good Character Evidence
- PCC and HC Practice Note: The Duty to Act in the Public Interest
- Rule 19 Cancellation of a Hearing Practice Note
- PCC Practice Note: Standard Case Directions
- Practice Note 2015/1: the duty to act in the public interest