In April, our Fitness to Practise (FTP) Department held three information sessions at the Centre for Midwifery Education, Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital in Dublin 8.

The sessions were presented by Christine Hughes, Professional Advisor and Jeanne Tarrant, Fitness to Practise Officer. They outlined the importance of regulation and the steps involved in the fitness to practise process, as well as providing updates to the FTP process, including our emotional support careline.

During the session they shared anonymised case studies and provided attendees with an overview of NMBI’s fitness to practise statistics.

The interactive session allowed participants to ask questions relating to fitness to practise matters and our team was happy to answer.

The sessions are part of our fitness to practise outreach programme to provide information to nurses and midwives about the importance of the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics.

We would like to thank Hazel Cazzini, Midwifery Specialist Co-ordinator at the Coombe for organising the sessions and thank those in attendance for their positive feedback.