Guidance, practice notes and policies
The work of the screeners and fitness to practise committees is assisted by a number of guidance documents, practice notes and policies.
There are links to some of these on the other pages in this Complaints section and for convenience, we list them here also.
Guidance for Screeners and Committees
- 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
- Remote hearings guidance and protocol
Practice Notes
- 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
