eGDC- 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
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