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Witness management and their experience in professional regulation fitness to practise-lessons from national research and discussion of opportunities
IfJ CPD Courses
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Dates
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Thursday
10.00am-12.30pm
Location
Zoom OnlineUnited Kingdom
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Course facilitator(s): Prof Louise Wallace and Dr Annie Sorbie
Professor Louise M. Wallace (https://www.open.ac.uk/people/lmw65) is the Professor of Psychology and Heath at The Open University, previously a registered clinical psychologist, general hospital trust CEO, and with many years in Executive and non Executive board roles in healthcare. Her research includes patient safety, clinical governance, professional regulation, public health and organisational improvement interventions in health and social care. She was a trustee for the accredited register UKPHR, and is a lay panel member for the General Dental Council, Social Work England, Teaching Regulation Agency and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
Dr Annie Sorbie (https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/annie-sorbie) is a Senior Lecturer in Health, Medical Law and Ethics at Edinburgh Law School, with a research and teaching portfolio. Prior to her career in academia, she had over 14 years' experience in legal practice in the health, social care and regulatory sector (September 2001 – December 2015, Partner from 2009), with a speciality in professional regulation. Dr Sorbie's research interrogates two key and related areas, namely health research regulation, with a focus on the role of the public interest, and the regulation of individual health and social care professionals. She has been called upon to provide independent expert advice to a range of public and third sector bodies, including recently the Infected Blood Inquiry (on the duties of candour), and the Scottish Government (on unlocking the value of public sector data for public benefit).
Who is this course for: Intermediaries interested in professional body regulatory work, in particular fitness to practice investigations and hearings
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Course Content:
This course will explore fitness to practice processes as well as the NIHR funded ‘Witness to harm, holding to account’ project, which sought to understand the experience of people who are witness in fitness to practice hearings.
Professor Louise Wallace will introduce why the team from 5 universities conducted a globally novel research project: ‘Witness to harm, holding to account’. She will explain what is known about the experience of the registrants, and what little was known before this project about the experiences of public and colleague professionals in health and social care who engage in the statutory regulators' fitness to practice proceedings (FtP). She will present their research findings, along with recorded narratives of people the team interviewed about their experiences of raising a concern about a registrant who had harmed them, and of giving live witness testimony and being cross examined in a public FtP tribunal.
Dr Annie Sorbie will explain the purpose of FtP processes. She will present her analyses of how social care regulators frame the procedures they use for vulnerable witnesses.
The discussion will draw out how the findings and recommendations of this project may be of relevance to intermediaries.
More about the project, and the free 4-hour learning resources about FtP can be viewed here: Resources
Course Aims/Objectives:
- Outline the purposes and process of health and care professional regulatory fitness to practise (FtP) processes
- Briefly review current research on registrant public experiences of FtP
- Present the experiences of public and colleagues who have engaged with FtP
- Present how regulators’ policies reflect concepts of witness vulnerability
- Consider how intermediaries might contribute to FtP
Course Method:
The workshop is run in the form of a small group training. The presenters will present information and will invite high levels of participation and sharing of knowledge and ideas. Prepared slides/handouts guide the process rather than impart information.
The following materials are provided:
- Powerpoint presentations and embedded videos
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- Participants to log on 15 minutes prior to start of each session. - It is required that all participants keep their cameras on throughout the workshop. - Participants to complete online feedback form post workshop. |
Cancellation Policy
If you cancel your booking with 14 or more days' notice, you will receive a full refund minus a £15 admin charge (£5 for subsidised courses). If you cancel your booking with less than 48 hours' notice, we are unfortunately unable to offer a refund. However, you may substitute another delegate or transfer to another course by giving IfJ at least 24 hours’ notice.
In exceptional circumstances IfJ reserve the right to issue a full refund. Please inform us at the time of cancellation of your particular reason for cancelling. If you wish to cancel or change your booking, please do so by emailing: admin@intermediaries-for-justice.org
We will endeavour to respond to all cancellation requests within two working days. Refunds will be made using the same method of payment as you used for the purchase and will be paid within seven days of refund confirmation.
Places are limited to a maximum of 20 participants. There is a minimum requirement of 6 participants. If the minimum number is not met, IfJ reserve the right to cancel the course with at least two weeks' notice and a full refund will be issued.