MyGDC- 01 March, 2018
- Fitness to practise
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The Literature review sought to identify evidence to answer the following questions:
- What are the characteristics of professional regulators’ fitness to practise (or equivalent) procedures which determine how they define, identify and categorise serious misconduct?
- What factors inform regulators’ decision-making around serious misconduct?
- Are there political and social contexts that can be identified as having influenced changes to regulators’ decision-making around serious misconduct?
- What is the evidence base for approaches to defining, identifying and categorising serious professional misconduct?
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Further research outputs
GDC Fitness to Practise experiences survey report 2026
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The concept of seriousness in fitness to practise – a cross-regulatory research
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Findings from the development and implementation of a survey of registrant and informant experiences of Fitness to Practise at the GDC
We commissioned research, led by the University of Manchester, to understand participants’ experiences of fitness to practise. As part of the ...
Experiences of GDC fitness to practise participants 2015 – 2021: A realist study
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