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Fitness to practise · All UK regulators

Remediation courses for UK fitness to practise concerns

A concern with your regulator is stressful. Choose your regulator for a plain-English guide to its process and what decision makers look for, then pick online courses that match the concern, each with a reflective account and a CPD certificate.

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Each guide explains that regulator’s own stages, outcomes and guidance on insight, then maps common concerns to the right courses.

GMC Doctors GMC remediation guide · 19 courses NMC Nurses, midwives and nursing associates NMC remediation guide · 19 courses HCPC 15 health and care professions HCPC remediation guide · 19 courses GDC Dentists and dental care professionals GDC remediation guide · 19 courses GPhC Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians GPhC remediation guide · 19 courses PSNI Pharmacists in Northern Ireland PSNI remediation guide · 19 courses GOC Optometrists and dispensing opticians GOC remediation guide · 19 courses GOsC Osteopaths GOsC remediation guide · 18 courses GCC Chiropractors GCC remediation guide · 18 courses SWE Social workers Social Work England remediation guide · 14 courses SSSC Social workers and social service workers SSSC remediation guide · 14 courses

What fitness to practise means

Every UK health and social care regulator can look into concerns about whether a registrant is fit to practise safely and effectively. A concern might be about conduct, such as honesty or boundaries, about clinical performance, about health, or about a conviction. Each regulator runs its own process, uses its own decision makers and judges the concern against its own standards, which is why there is a separate guide for each one above.

Most cases turn on the same core question: is the registrant’s fitness to practise impaired today? To answer it, decision makers look back at what happened and forward at the risk of it happening again. That forward look is where your insight and remediation count.

Insight and remediation, in plain terms

Insight

Showing that you understand what went wrong, why it mattered to the people you care for, to colleagues and to public trust, and what your own part in it was.

Remediation

The practical steps you take to put the problem right and stop it recurring, such as targeted learning, supervision, audits or changes to how you work, and the evidence that proves it.

Not every concern can be remedied in the same way. Clinical and record-keeping failings are usually easier to address with learning and supervised practice. Concerns about honesty, sexual misconduct or discrimination go to character and attitude, and decision makers look much harder at genuine insight and sustained change. Your regulator guide explains how your regulator treats each kind of concern.

A five-step remediation plan

  1. Get advice early. Contact your defence organisation, union or a solicitor as soon as you are told about a concern. They can tell you what to submit and when.
  2. Name the standard. Identify which parts of your regulator’s standards the concern touches. That tells you what your learning needs to cover.
  3. Learn with a purpose. Choose courses that map directly to the concern. Relevance matters far more than volume.
  4. Reflect honestly. After each course, write in your own words what happened, what you learned, how it changes your practice and how you will keep it up.
  5. Show it in practice. Back the learning with evidence from work: audits, supervisor reports, testimonials and examples of the changed behaviour over time.

Important

We are an independent CPD provider. We are not part of any regulator, we do not give legal advice and no course can guarantee the outcome of a case. Use our courses as one part of the evidence you agree with your representative.

Courses most often used in remediation

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Remediation courses: common questions

What is a remediation course?

A remediation course is targeted learning a registrant takes after a concern has been raised about their practice or conduct. The aim is to understand what went wrong, learn the standard that applies and show how practice has changed. Decision makers look at the quality of that learning and the reflection behind it, not simply at the number of certificates.

Do UK regulators approve remediation courses?

No. None of the UK health and care regulators approves, accredits or recommends particular remediation courses. Decision makers weigh the evidence you put forward, including how relevant the learning is to the concern and what you took from it. Be wary of any provider that suggests otherwise.

Which course should I take first?

Start with the course that maps most closely to the allegation, for example probity for dishonesty or record keeping for documentation failings. Many registrants add the Fitness to Practise course, which covers impairment, insight and reflection across all regulators. Your regulator page above lists the best match for each type of concern.

How many courses do I need?

There is no set number. A small amount of learning that is clearly linked to the concern, with a thoughtful reflection on each course, usually says more than a long list of loosely related certificates. Agree the plan with your representative.

Can I use the certificate as evidence?

Yes. Each course gives you a CPD certificate with your name, the course title and the CPD hours, plus a structured reflective account you can adapt in your own words. Your representative can include both in your bundle. How much weight they carry is a matter for the decision maker.

How quickly can I start?

Straight away. Courses are online and self-paced, and they appear in My Courses as soon as payment is complete, so you can fit learning around work and any deadlines in your case.

Need help choosing the right course?

Tell us your profession and the area the concern relates to, and we will suggest the most relevant courses.

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