TY  - EJOU
AU  - Macqueen, M. Dominic
TI  - Fitness-to-Practise: How UK Healthcare Regulators Cause Practitioner Deaths
T2  - Journal of Controversial Ideas

PY  - 2023
VL  - 3
IS  - 1
SN  - 2694-5991

AB  - 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.
KW  - Fitness-to-practise
KW  - judicial irregularity
KW  - ethics
KW  - regulation
KW  - suicide
DO  - 10.35995/jci03010007