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Unsafe clinical practice
Case study: A biomedical scientist’s employer raised concerns following an incident where the registrant failed to follow procedure. When processing samples, the registrant failed to prevent contamination, which led to inaccurate results.
Dishonesty by falsifying time sheet and travel expense claims
Case study: The NHS Counter Fraud Unit of the local NHS Trust raised concerns about a physiotherapist. On numerous occasions, the registrant submitted timesheets and claimed payments for hours they did not work.
My Story - Nana-Jane Chipampe
Nana-Jane is a registered biomedical scientist currently in the third year of her PhD researching Bladder Cancer.
Providing care and treatment remotely
What to consider when your scope of practice moves online
Did you know our standards are online?
You can easily access our standards from anywhere in a new responsive and print-friendly online format
Person-centred care
As a health and care professional, you must promote and protect the interests of service users and carers
Case studies of fitness to practise concerns
Our case studies illustrate the types of issues that are taken into consideration by a panel when deciding if a registrant’s fitness to practise is impaired
Reclassification of gabapentin and pregabalin
From midnight on 1st April 2019, gabapentin and pregabalin will be reclassified as Schedule 3 controlled drugs, under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations (2001), and Class C of the Misuse of Drugs Act (1971)
Raising concerns, openness and honesty
An important part of being a health and care profession is reporting concerns about safety and being open and honest
Standards
Our standards form the foundation for how we regulate, explaining what we expect of our registrants and education and training programmes.