The General Optical Council (GOC) has welcomed the publication of the Health and Social Care Bill which contains a provision for the creation of a new independent body charged with the hearing of fitness to practise cases.
The new Office of the Health Professions Adjudicator (OHPA) will hear cases referred to it by health professional regulators such as the GOC and the BMA with changes outlined in the Bill due to come into operation from September 2008, subject to the parliamentary timetable.
The Department of Health believes that this new office will improve public and professional confidence in the impartiality of fitness to practise decisions.
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