Learning points

Learning points

We work with the regulatory bodies to improve quality and share good practice. Through our scrutiny of the regulators' final fitness to practise decisions, we identify learning points that we feed back to the regulators. Sometimes the point is relevant to one regulator but often it can apply to all the regulators.

In 2007 we collated the learning we had identified so far into a learning points document, Protecting the public, learning from Fitness to Practise. This document also includes information and decisions from registrant appeals.

We are also starting to produce a series of learning points bulletins designed to assist fitness to practise panels in their consideration of future cases, and help to improve the regulators’ processes and procedures. Every six months our bulletin will focus on a learning points theme. This theme will generally reflect the key learning points we have identified over the previous 12 months. Our first learning points bulletin focuses on the learning points we have identified around the drafting of a fitness to practise determination.

Sharing learning points with the regulators has been an effective way of promoting excellence in regulation. Regulators have considered this information and in some cases used it in the training of the Fitness to Practise panel members.