Fitness to practise resources
The fitness to practise process can be difficult and overwhelming. Many people do not know what is expected of them. This resource section provides helpful and informative information for people going through the fitness to practise process.
Here you will find case studies, videos and publications that can help demystify the process and provide support.
Fitness to practise videos
We have run a number of fitness to practise webinars to help demystify the process and provide guidance. Here you can watch some extracts from those webinars.
Click on the videos below to view them on the GOsC YouTube channel.
General Osteopathic Council Fitness to Practise and the Independent Support Service - Victim Support
In this extract from our Fitness to Practise webinar in May 2022, Sara Brown discusses the Independent Support Service and how it can support osteopaths and witnesses during a fitness to practise process.
Fitness to Practise webinar - do cases we hear always result in sanctions?
In this clip from our Fitness to Practise webinar at the end of September 2021, Sheleen McCormack, our Director of Fitness to Practise, responds to a question from an attendee about the number of cases that result in sanctions.
Fitness to Practise webinar: What is a case to answer?
Fitness to Practise ebulletin
The Fitness to Practise ebulletin is designed to help demystify the fitness to practise process and respond to feedback we have received.
| May 2022 | Insights on fitness to practise issue two |
| September 2021 | Insights on fitness to practise issue one |
You can read previous Fitness to Practise ebulletins which are listed below. Between September 2016 and Spring 2021, fitness to practise related content was available in The Osteopath magazine.
Click on the issue title to download the bulletin.
| September 2016 | Insurance lapsed? Don't cover it up |
| April 2016 | The essence of safe osteopathic practice |
| May 2015 | Know your professional limits |
| December 2014 | Practising in a non-clinical environment |
| March 2014 | Maintaining clear boundaries |
| May 2013 | Patient confidentiality |
| February 2012 | Criminal convictions and fitness to practise |
| November 2011 | Discount deals |
| June 2011 | A question of conduct |
| January 2011 | Defining characteristic |
| September 2010 | For the record: taking and storing osteopathic notes |
| April 2010 | Does your advertising comply with the standards? |
