Learning points

Learning points

We work with the regulatory bodies to improve quality and share good practice. Through our scrutiny of the final decisions taken by the regulators' fitness to practise committees as well as our audit of the regulators’ handling of complaints which are not referred to fitness to practise committees, we identify learning points that we feed back to the regulators.

In 2007 we collated our learning into a learning points document, Protecting the public, learning from Fitness to Practise. We also produce 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. Our first learning points bulletin focused on the learning points around the drafting of a fitness to practise determination. 

Our latest learning points bulletin, Improving Fitness to Practise decisions, uses case studies to demonstrate some of the weaknesses we have identified in the decisions made by the regulators’ fitness to practise committees in the period since April 2010.

We believe that 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 their fitness to practise committees and in the development of policy and standard operating procedures and toolkits.