Professional discipline and health care regulators is a practical and accessible guide to the law, practice and procedure of professional disciplinary hearings before health care regulators. This book is essential reading for lawyers, advisers, trade union officials and health care professionals. It is a practical handbook for the busy legal practitioner and an affordable and accessible guide for registrants and their union representatives. The regulation of professional discipline for health care professionals, commonly referred to as fitness to practise proceedings, is in a constant state of flux. This new book provides clear, practical guidance and advice for every stage of proceedings: how to prepare for a case, presentation at the hearing and coverage of broader issues such as mediation, abuse of process, appeals, judicial review and the Independent Safeguarding Authority.