Fitness to Practise
Fitness to practise means that all applicants to health care programmes must demonstrate they have sufficient good health and good character for safe and effective practise:
- On entry to the programme
- Throughout the programme
- To register as a health professional with the regulatory body at the end of the programme, for example the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or the Health Professions Council (HPC) if you are an Operating Department Practitioner or Paramedic
The role of the regulatory organisation is to protect the health and wellbeing of people who use the services and the health and well being of the health professionals registered with them.
A good health reference from your GP is required as part of the application process and may be followed up with a medical assessment by the Occupational Health Service.
A good character reference from the Criminal Records Bureau is required as part of the application process and is an enhanced disclosure. This means that all cautions and convictions spent or otherwise will be identified.
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Acknowledgements
The project team, Professor barbara Jack, Julie Devereux, Pat Hosgood, Jennifer Kirton, would like to thank the following people for their input into this project:
- Gill Curry: Occupational Health, Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Hazel Devereux: Institutional Inclusion team
- D Christine Donnelly: Senior Lecturer Complementary Therapies, Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, Napier University, Edinburgh, for her guidance and support
- Ann-Marie Johnson: Pre entry Advice and Guidance Officer, EHU
- Joanne Linskey: Pre Registration Child Branch Student
- Sharon Partington: Director of Human Resources, Southport and Ormskirk NHS Trust
- Brenda Roberts : Head of Pre-Registration Child Branch Nursing
With particular thanks to the Higher Education Academy for the small project grant and all the students who participated in the study.
Thank you also to Edge Hill University for supporting the project and to all the departments who are contributing to the development of the web zone.