Annex: The questions we will ask you on your application
Joining, or re-entering, the register
If your application is to join the register for the first time or to re-enter the register, we will ask you the following questions:
Questions about your health
1. Has a course provider, university or employer raised concerns about how you managed a health condition, that led to a formal process?
The formal process could be to support you, or to investigate the concerns. Usually a senior or HR manager, committee, hearing or similar decides what action to take after the process has finished.
2. Has a course provider , university or employer raised concerns about how a health condition affected your ability to study or work as a PA or AA, that led to a formal process?
The formal process could be to support you, or to investigate the concerns. Usually a senior or HR manager, committee, hearing or similar decides what action to take after the process has finished.
Questions about your fitness to practise
1. Have you been formally cautioned or convicted by the police or a court?
If your caution or conviction is protected by law under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and you aren’t required to disclose it to us because of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975, answer no.
2. Has any other action been taken against you by the police or a similar organisation?
Read the guide before you answer this question as there are some actions you don't need to tell us about. For example, you don’t need to tell us about fixed penalty notices.
3. Has a course provider or university raised concerns about your professionalism or behaviour, that led to a formal process?
The formal process could be to support you, or to investigate the concerns. Usually a committee, hearing or similar decides what action to take after the process has finished.
4. Has an employer raised concerns about your professional performance, professionalism or behaviour that led to a formal process?
The formal process could be to support you, or to investigate the concerns. Usually a senior or HR manager, committee, hearing or similar decides what action to take after the process has finished. This includes employers for a role not related to providing services in your PA or AA capacity.
5. Has an organisation investigated concerns about your fitness to practise or refused to register you, either as a physician associate/anaesthesia associate, or as another healthcare professional?
The organisation could be a regulator, a professional body with a voluntary register (including a royal college or faculty), a coroner, a licensing body or a similar organisation.
6. Have you had a malpractice or negligence claim made against you that was settled out of court or upheld?
If the claim is still ongoing answer ‘yes'.
