W2 Fitness To Practise and GPhC Standards

Question 1

What is standard 1? (person-centred)

Answer 1

1. Person-centred care

Question 2

What is standard 2? (partnership)

Answer 2

2. Working in partnership with others

Question 3

What is standard 3? (communicate)

Answer 3

3. Communicating effectively

Question 4

What is standard 4? (maintain)

Answer 4

4. Maintaining, developing and using professional knowledge and skills

Question 5

What is standard 5? (judgement)

Answer 5

5. Using professional judgement

Question 6

What is standard 6? (manner)

Answer 6

6. Behaving in a professional manner

Question 7

What is standard 7? (respect)

Answer 7

7. Respecting and maintaining a person’s confidentiality and privacy

Question 8

What is standard 8? (concerns)

Answer 8

Speaking up when you have concerns or when things go wrong

Question 9

What is standard 9? (demonstrate)

Answer 9

9. Demonstrating leadership

Question 10

What 4 things are elements of fitness to practise? (4)

Answer 10

• Skills
• Knowledge
• Character
• Health

Question 11

How is fitness to practise reviewed?

Answer 11

• Annual declaration (or within seven days of an incident)
• Complete revalidation records

Question 12

Fitness to Practise comes under which legal act?

Answer 12

Pharmacy Order 2010

Question 13

Examples of wrongdoing in the workplace: (3)

Answer 13

*Serious unprofessional or inappropriate behaviour
*Dishonesty or fraud
*Working under the influence of drink or drugs

Question 14

What are the stages of FTP?

Answer 14

1. We receive a concern
2. Investigate a concern
3. Investigating comittee
4. Fitness to practise comittee

Question 15

What happens during stage one (concern recieved)?

Possible outcomes:

Answer 15

-Initial review
-Outcomes:
* Close the case
* Pass it on to another regulator or agency
* Begin an investigation

Question 16

What happens during stage two (initial inquires and investigation)?

Answer 16

• Visiting the site, speaking to the pharmacy professional involved and identifying any witnesses
• Aim to complete investigations within three to nine months
• Interim orders allow for a pharmacy professional’s registration to be suspended

Question 17

What happens in Stage 3 – Investigating Committee?
Who is part of the comittee? (4)
What are the outcomes?

Answer 17

• Private meeting that considers written evidence
• Usually includes four people:
• a chair or deputy chair
• two pharmacy professional members
• a lay member.

Outcomes include:
* take no action
* give advice to the pharmacy professional
* issue a warning
* agree ‘undertakings’
* practise is impaired
* refer to an FtPC

Question 18

Stage 4 - Fitness to practise committee
How many people are on the committee?
Outcomes? (7)

Answer 18

Committee of three people:
* a chair,
* a registrant member
* a lay member
*In most cases, a committee will hold a hearing in public.
*‘Balance of probabilities’.
*Decision is called a determination

Outcomes include:
* take no action
* advice
* agree ‘undertakings’
* issue a warning
* impose conditions on practice
* suspend from practising
* remove from the register

Question 19

How long before you can reapply to join the register?

Answer 19

*Five years
*Evidence based

Question 20

Acting as a witness:
What is a role of a witness during these 4 stages?

Answer 20

Stage one- Contacting to ask about what happened
Stage two- Asked to give a formal statement
Stage three- Told what the comittee decides
Stage four- Arranged with witness to give evidence at the hearing