@Article{ AUTHOR = {Macqueen, Dominic Macqueen}, TITLE = {Fitness-to-Practise: How UK Healthcare Regulators Cause Practitioner Deaths}, JOURNAL = {Journal of Controversial Ideas}, VOLUME = {3}, YEAR = {2023}, NUMBER = {1}, PAGES = {0--0}, URL = {https://journalofcontroversialideas.org/article/3/1/228}, ISSN = {2694-5991}, ABSTRACT = {Cases of practitioner ill-health and suicide have been attributed to disciplinary proceedings carried out by healthcare regulators. The methods operated by regulatory bodies when investigating claims of practitioner wrongdoing exhibit judicial irregularities and raise significant ethical concerns. Revealing how and where regulators fail to execute their fitness-to-practise responsibilities constructively creates a starting point from which fairer and safer systems of regulatory interventions can be considered. This paper is an analysis of how the regulatory establishment administers fitness-to-practise procedures, and endeavours to identify how existing approaches cause harm and undermine the integrity of regulatory oversight.}, DOI = {10.35995/jci03010007} }