Webinar series on tackling sexual misconduct in healthcare: new 2025 dates in July and September

04 Jul 2025

We launched a series of webinars focused on tackling sexual misconduct by health and care professionals in autumn 2024.

The webinars feature expert-led presentations and discussions on different aspects of the issue, bringing together stakeholders from across the sector, including regulators, Accredited Registers, and patient and registrant representative organisations.

The webinars include hearing from those in the sector working to address sexual misconduct, reviewing the latest research evidence, and learning from examples of how other sectors and countries are tackling the problem to identify what more can be done.

New dates added in July and September 2025

We have just added four more webinars to the series. They are:

  1. 21 July | 12:30-13:30 | Issues arising from PSA Section 29 and section 40B appeals | Ros Foster, Partner – Healthcare and Public Law Hill Dickinson LLP
  2. 22 July | 12:30-13:30 | Understanding Perpetrators |Professor Rosalind Searle, University of Glasgow
  3. 4 September | 12:30-14.00 | Sexual misconduct in dentistry | General Dental Council and researchers
  4. 29 September | 12:30-13:30 | Stopping sexual abuse in healthcare: a researcher-survivor perspective | Joni Browne from Opening Up - a not-for-profit project to prevent sexual abuse by health professionals

See below for more details about how to attend.

The series launched in early September with a presentation on NHS England’s Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence programme, including their charter on sexual safety at work.  A further webinar was held on 24 September exploring the culture challenges within the ambulance sector and the work that is being done to improve sexual safety. We added 2025 dates to the series and these have included presentatons from the General Medical Council on tackling sexual misconduct and a webinar looking at sexual misconduct between colleagues.

Through this discussion series, we are hoping to facilitate learning and robust discussion amongst stakeholders so that, collectively, we can better understand the issue, develop effective solutions, and take meaningful steps forward.

These discussions will continue through to Autumn 2025, after which we are planning to produce a report including recommendations for the future contribution of regulators in this area.  

Interested in attending? 

If you would like to attend any, or all, of these webinars, please get in touch with Douglas Bilton by emailing douglas.bilton@professionalstandards.org.uk 

Related content

We have circulated the second issue of our Fitness to Practise Learning Points Bulletin to regulators. We have noticed a rise in final decisions involving sexual misconduct and inappropriate behaviour and our first two bulletins are focused on this as an area of interest. We have also published research 

Read our Fitness to Practise learning points bulletin