Fitness To Practice - Nurses & Ambulance Staff : Feb 27 & 28
6 Feb 2007
Registration bodies have a responsibility to ensure that all their registrants are fit to practise. This means that if your registration body believes that you are impaired through ill health, inappropriate conduct or lack of competency to perform your professional duties and responsibilities it can remove you from the register. This is a chance to understand your responsibilities and for activists to find out how to support members.
Fitness to practice is an important issue for a range of members. We are running sessions specifically for Nurses, Ambulance staff and Social Workers.
What things can someone complain about? There are five broad categories of complaint, which are considered
by registration bodies. They are issues relating to:
• Your physical or mental health where it affects your fitness to practise
• Your misconduct both in the workplace or outside of work where you allegedly bring your profession into disrepute
• Your competency to practise
• Another registration body removing you from their register
• A conviction or caution you have received for a criminal offence.
The registration bodies have a duty to decide whether the facts set out in the complaint against you is true and if so whether it amounts to misconduct, incompetence or a health failure.
These events will explain how the process works and how you can ensure that your practice meets the required standards and defend yourself against allegations.
Date: Tuesday 27th February 2007 - Nurses
Location: UNISON Office, Belfast
Date: Wednesday 28th February 2007 - Ambulance staff
Location: UNISON Office, Belfast
Date: Tuesday 5th June 2007 - Social Workers
Location: UNISON Office, Belfast
