Dishonesty

We found that, in many of the final fitness to practise panel decisions about practitioners we review (and then go on to appeal), dishonesty has not been properly taken into account. We decided to take a closer look at it and commissioned research.

Read our publications:

Bad apples? Bad barrels? Or bad cellars? Antecedents and processes of professional misconduct in UK health and social care

A typology of dishonesty - illustrations using the fitness to practise database

Dishonest behaviour by health and care professionals research 2016

Find out more about our publications. We publish:

Other material

Read through the presentation we gave at IAMRA 2016

Professional misconduct - dishonesty

Dishonesty research infographic - public and professional perceptions

Watch our short explainer

This short video presents some of the key findings from our research on public and professional perceptions of dishonest behaviour by health and care professionals