MPs question the professional regulators for doctors and nurses

• Parliament TV: Regulatory Bodies
• Health Committee

The session will take place in Committee Room 8, House of Commons, Palace of Westminster.

Topics likely to feature in this session include:

• The ability (or otherwise) of medical doctors to opt for ‘elective removal’ from the register to practice before investigation by the GMC.
• The proportion of black and minority doctors represented in statistics for investigations that examine fitness to practice.
• Action underway or required to tighten language testing of nurses from EEA
• The practical revalidation of nurses to ensure their fitness to practice The latest rates of fitness to practice investigations against nurses.
• Action being taken by NMC to address issues arising from the care home scandal at Winterbourne View in Bristol. 

Witnesses

at 10:30am

General Medical Council

• Niall Dickson, Chief Executive and Registrar
• Paul Philip, Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Standards and Fitness to Practise
• Professor Malcolm Lewis, Council Member

at 11.45am

Nursing and Midwifery Council

• Proffessor Dickon Weir-Hughes, Chief Executive and Registrar
• Dr Katerina Kolyva, Assistant Director for Nursing Midwife Policy
• Jackie Smith, Director of Fitness to Practise

Further information

• About Parliament: Watch Committees
• Visiting Parliament: Select Committees