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GOsC Fitness to Practise: Investigation
Stage 1: triage or initial assessment
Each referral is assessed whether the case is suitable for the GOsC to regulate by an independent osteopath. Once the case is found to fall within GOsC’s remit it will:
- Write to you and let you know that the GOsC is investigation an allegation to your fitness to practice; and
- Ask for more information if they need it (for example from your employers or the police).
When they write to you with the full details of the allegation and give you all copies of all the documentation they have, they will invite you to make a response in writing within 28 days of their letter.
Stage 2: Investigating Committee Panels
Panels of the Investigating Committee (IC) are responsible for considering all allegations made to the GOsC about fitness to practise issues. The IC screen the paper evidence in private to decide whether there is a ‘case to answer’, not whether the allegation is proven. It aims to access this within four months of the original complaint being received. Once it has considered all the available evidence, the IC panel has a range of powers. It can decide that:
- more information is needed;
- close the case with no further action taken;
- refer the case to a panel of the Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) in cases about misconduct, lack of competence, convictions determinations by other regulators and decisions to bar a professional; or for reasons of ill health, refer the case to a panel of the Health Committee (HC)
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