GOsC publishes fitness to practise report for 2021-22

Our Fitness to Practise Annual Report 2021-2022 provides details of the decisions where sanctions have been applied from the substantive hearings of the GOsC’s Professional Conduct Committee concluded during the relevant period.

The Professional Conduct Committee hears cases concerning serious unacceptable conduct, incompetence or criminal convictions. If the Committee finds any such case ‘well founded’, it imposes an appropriate sanction on the osteopath.

As part of the GOsC’s programme to continually enhance its fitness to practise processes, this year’s report details a number of updates, including:

• the consultation and publication of our remote hearings guidance and protocol
• changes to our section 32 enforcement policy statement to help protect the osteopathic title
• the launch of our Insights on Fitness to Practise bulletin

The Independent Support Service, a free and confidential service provided by GOsC for osteopaths, patients and witnesses involved in our fitness to practise proceedings, is also highlighted in the report. The service was renamed at the beginning of 2022 and is run by the charity Victim Support.  

The annual fitness to practise reports provide guidance to osteopaths on the high standards of conduct and practice required to maintain registration. Read this year’s report

You can view all of our fitness to practise annual reports online.