Fitness to practise

Roz Gittins: ‘The longer fitness-to-practise processes take, the longer registrants are left in purgatory’

As the new chief pharmacy officer for the General Pharmaceutical Council, Roz Gittins tells The Pharmaceutical Journal that she is bringing a fresh pair of eyes to the regulator’s fitness-to-practise process.…

Record number of fitness-to-practise cases creates ‘increased risk’ of missing patient safety threats, regulator warns

There were a record 1,373 fitness-to-practise concerns raised with the General Pharmaceutical Council between July and September 2023, with the regulator warning this may lead to it failing to act quickly on information relating to patient safety threats.…

Number of fitness-to-practise cases open for more than a year increases to 430 cases, regulator tells MP

The number of cases open for more than three years rose to 77 cases in 2022/2023, up from 49 cases in 2021/2022.…

Asian and black pharmacists overrepresented in fitness-to-practise concerns, GPhC finds

The General Pharmaceutical Council has analysed data on fitness-to-practise concerns and found that all ethnicities other than white pharmacists were overrepresented.…

PSA writes to health secretary to ‘raise concerns’ over GPhC’s fitness-to-practise timeliness

Duncan Rudkin, chief executive of the GPhC, said it was “an absolute priority” for it to resolve fitness-to-practise cases “in a timely way”.…

GPhC facing biggest ever backlog of open fitness-to-practise cases at initial assessment stage

Council papers said there were more than 700 open initial assessment fitness-to-practise cases.…

Pharmacist given warning as committee in second fitness-to-practise case rules remarks were antisemitic

The General Pharmaceutical Council’s fitness-to-practise committee issued Nazim Hussain Ali with a warning for a second time over remarks he made at an Al Quds Day rally, after its initial decision was quashed by the High Court.…

Regulator reports 50% increase in early closures of fitness-to-practise cases

General Pharmaceutical Council papers show that 69 cases were closed before the investigating committee stage in January to March 2023, compared with 46 cases in the previous quarter.…

GPhC receives record number of fitness-to-practise concerns

Despite the largest number of concerns reported in any quarter, the pharmacy regulator says it is making good progress in improving its fitness-to-practise systems.…

Pharmacy regulator has failed to meet fitness-to-practise standards for the fourth year in a row

The General Pharmaceutical Council has failed to meet three standards relating to the transparency, fairness and timeliness of the fitness-to-practise process and the support available for the people involved.…