Understanding MPTS Training Requirements

The General Medical Council is the governing body for health professionals in the United Kingdom?

Fitness to practise cases are overseen by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal?

Assessments of professional performance or health are not included in fitness to practise cases?

The Privy Council is responsible for making orders regarding healthcare procedures?

True or false: The MPTS is constituted by the General Council?

True or false: The chair of the MPTS is an officer of the General Council?

True or false: The registrant members of the MPTS form a majority of the members?

True or false: The General Council can delegate functions of the MPTS to the chair or other officers?

True or false: The General Medical Council (Fitness to Practise and Over-arching Objective) and the Professional Authority for Health and Social Care (References to Court) Order 2015 was made on February 24, 2010?

True or false: The General Medical Council (Fitness to Practise and Over-arching Objective) and the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (References to Court) Order 2015 is also known as the 2015 Order?

True or false: The General Medical Council (Fitness to Practise and Over-arching Objective) and the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (References to Court) Order 2015 is a Statutory Instrument?

The General Medical Council (Fitness to Practise and Overarching Objective) and the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (References to Court) Order 2015 came into force on the day after the day on which this Order was made.

The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) is established as a committee of the General Medical Council.

The Health Act 2006 (c. 28) is one of the acts mentioned in the text.

The Medical Act 1983(a) was amended by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c.7).

The MPTS is responsible for appointing persons to serve as the chair of a Medical Practitioners Tribunal or Interim Orders Tribunal.

Paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 was amended by S.I. 2002/3135.

A person appointed to a panel list within sub-paragraph (2)(a)(ii) or (iii) cannot be appointed to a panel list within sub-paragraph (2)(a)(i).

A person who serves as a member of an Interim Orders Tribunal may serve as a member of a Medical Practitioners Tribunal in any subsequent proceedings in the case concerned.

True or false: Rules under paragraph 9 may include provision for the General Council to set and vary the education and training requirements of members of the MPTS from time to time?

True or false: The MPTS is required to maintain a system for the declaration and registration of private interests of its members?

True or false: Rules under paragraph 13 may make different provision for different cases or different classes of case?

True or false: The Medical Practitioners Tribunals and Interim Orders Tribunals are to be constituted as provided by rules made under paragraph 19F of the Medical Act?

True or false: Article 7 of the 2015 Order requires the General Council to ensure fair and just treatment in proceedings before Medical Practitioners Tribunal or Interim Orders Tribunal?

True or false: The new over-arching objective of the General Council is the protection of the public and includes promoting and maintaining proper professional standards for members of the medical profession?

True or false: This draft Statutory Instrument supersedes the draft of the General Medical Council (Fitness to Practise and Over-arching Objective) and the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (References to Court) Order 2014?

True or false: The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service is established as a committee of the General Medical Council?

The General Medical Council (Fitness to Practise and Over-arching Objective) and the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (References to Court) Order 2015 brings into force new objectives and rule making powers related to the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service and the Interim Orders Tribunal.

Articles 4(4) and 7 of the 2015 Order provide for a new overriding objective that applies to the General Council when making certain rules.

Until paragraphs (1) and (2) of article 3 of the 2015 Order come into force, the references to a Medical Practitioners Tribunal in articles 4(3), 7 and 12(9) of that Order are to be read as references to a Fitness to Practise Panel.

Of the articles brought into force by this instrument, articles 4(4) and 7 of the 2015 Order require the General Council to ensure that the Tribunal deals with cases fairly and justly.

The MPTS is responsible for providing training for persons appointed to a panel list.

The MPTS is required to maintain a system for the declaration and registration of private interests of panel list appointees.

The General Council may allow remuneration and expenses for persons appointed to a panel list.

Rules under paragraph 19F or 19G aim to ensure that Medical Practitioners Tribunals and Interim Orders Tribunals deal with cases fairly and justly.

True or false: The terms 'Fitness to Practise Panel' and 'Medical Practitioners Tribunal' are used interchangeably in sections 35B(4), 38(1), (2) and (4), 44(5), 47(4) and 53(2) of the Medical Act?

True or false: In section 44(5) of the Medical Act, 'the Panel' is substituted with 'the Tribunal'?

True or false: The term 'Interim Orders Panel' is replaced with 'Interim Orders Tribunal' in sections 35B(4) and 47(4) of the Medical Act?

Which body is responsible for overseeing fitness to practise cases?

When did the General Medical Council (Fitness to Practise and Overarching Objective) and the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (References to Court) Order 2015 come into force?

Which committee is responsible for establishing the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service?

Which act amended section 60 of the Health Act 1999?

Which section of the Medical Act was amended by the National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006?

Which schedule was amended by the Health and Social Work Professions Order 2002?

Which paragraph of Schedule 1 was amended by S.I. 2002/3135?

Which Act repealed the amendments made to the Medical Act 1983 by the Health and Social Care Act 2008?

When did the General Medical Council (Fitness to Practise and Overarching Objective) and the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (References to Court) Order 2015 come into force?

What is the purpose of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS)?

What is the new overriding objective of the General Medical Council?

Which one of these paragraphs in the text provides for the payment of remuneration and expenses to persons appointed to a panel list?

True or false: The MPTS is responsible for appointing persons to serve as the chair of a Medical Practitioners Tribunal or Interim Orders Tribunal.

True or false: The chair of the MPTS is an officer of the General Council?

True or false: Rules under paragraph 9 may include provision for the General Council to set and vary the education and training requirements of members of the MPTS from time to time?

Which one of these is NOT a provision that rules under paragraph 9 may include?

True or false: The MPTS is responsible for maintaining a system for the declaration and registration of private interests of their members?

True or false: The General Council is responsible for setting and varying the education and training requirements of members of the MPTS?

True or false: The term 'registrant member' and 'lay member' have the same meaning as in paragraph 1A of the text?

Which section(s) of the Medical Act is/are amended to replace 'Fitness to Practise Panel' with 'Medical Practitioners Tribunal'?

What is the correct amendment made to section 44(5) of the Medical Act?

Which paragraph of Schedule 1 was amended by S.I. 2002/3135?

Which paragraph of the Schedule 1 was amended by S.I. 2002/3135?

Who is responsible for appointing persons to serve as the chair of a Medical Practitioners Tribunal or Interim Orders Tribunal?

Which body can assist the MPTS in connection with the exercise of functions conferred on the MPTS by virtue of sub-paragraph (2)(a) or (b)?

Who may not serve as a member of a Medical Practitioners Tribunal in any subsequent proceedings in the case concerned?

Which of the following is NOT a provision that must be included in the rules made under paragraph 19F?

Which of the following is a requirement for the composition of the MPTS?

Which of the following is a power that the General Council has in relation to the MPTS?

Which of the following is a function that the MPTS can delegate to the chair or other officers?

Which of the following is NOT a part of the new over-arching objective of the General Council?

Which of the following is true about the 2015 Order?

Which of the following is NOT a function of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS)?

What is the purpose of the transitory provision in article 3 of the 2015 Order?

Which articles of the 2015 Order were brought into force on 3rd August 2015?

What do articles 4(4) and 7 of the 2015 Order provide for?

What is the purpose of the 2015 Order?

What do articles 2(4), 3(3), 4(3), (4), (5) and (12), 7, 8(2), (5) and (6), 9(1), 10(1)(b), (2), (3) (in part) and (4), 11(1), (2), (3), (4), (5)(b), (6), (7) and (8)(a), 12(1), (2) and (9), 13(4), 14 (in part), 21 (in part) and 22(1) of the 2015 Order principally relate to?

Which section of the Health Act 1999 was amended by the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002?

True or false: The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) is established as a committee of the General Medical Council.

Which of the following is NOT a part of the new over-arching objective of the General Medical Council?

True or false: In section 44(5) of the Medical Act, 'the Panel' is substituted with 'the Tribunal'?

Which paragraph of Schedule 1 was amended by S.I. 2006/1914?

Which paragraph of Schedule 1 was amended by S.I. 2008/3131?

Which paragraph of Schedule 1 was substituted by S.I. 2002/3135?

Which paragraph of Schedule 1 was amended by S.I. 2008/1774?

Which Act repealed the amendments made to the Medical Act 1983 by the Health and Social Care Act 2008?

True or false: The General Medical Council (Fitness to Practise and Over-arching Objective) and the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (References to Court) Order 2015 is a Statutory Instrument?

True or false: The General Council can delegate functions of the MPTS to the chair or other officers?

What is the purpose of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS)?

Which of the following is NOT an objective of the General Council in the exercise of their functions?

Which of the following is NOT a provision that must be included in the rules made under paragraph 19F?

True or false: The MPTS is responsible for appointing persons to serve as the chair of a Medical Practitioners Tribunal or Interim Orders Tribunal.

True or false: The registrant members of the MPTS form a majority of the members?

Which one of these is a requirement for the constitution of the MPTS?

Which one of these is NOT a provision that must be included in the rules under paragraph 19F?

Which one of these is true about the chair of the MPTS?

Which one of these is a function that the MPTS can delegate to the chair or other officers?

Which of the following is true about the General Medical Council (Fitness to Practise and Over-arching Objective) and the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (References to Court) Order 2015?

What is the purpose of the General Medical Council (Fitness to Practise and Overarching Objective) and the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (References to Court) Order 2015?

Who has the power to make the General Medical Council (Fitness to Practise and Overarching Objective) and the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (References to Court) Order 2015?

Which sections of the Medical Act were amended to substitute 'Fitness to Practise Panel' with 'Medical Practitioners Tribunal'?

Which section of the Medical Act was amended to substitute 'the Panel' with 'the Tribunal'?

Which section of the Medical Act was amended to substitute 'Interim Orders Panel' with 'Interim Orders Tribunal'?

Which of the following is a function of the MPTS?

True or false: The General Council has the power to make rules under paragraph 19F or 19G to ensure fair and just treatment in proceedings before Medical Practitioners Tribunals and Interim Orders Tribunals.

True or false: The MPTS is responsible for appointing persons to serve as the chair or another member of a Medical Practitioners Tribunal or an Interim Orders Tribunal.

What is the purpose of the General Council's power to make rules under paragraph 19F or 19G?

Which of the following is a provision that may be included in the rules made under paragraph 9?

What is the purpose of the Medical Practitioners Tribunals and Interim Orders Tribunals?

Which of the following is NOT a provision that must be included in the rules made under paragraph 19F?

Who is responsible for appointing persons to serve as the chair of a Medical Practitioners Tribunal or Interim Orders Tribunal?

Which articles of the 2015 Order came into force on 3rd August 2015?

Which of the following is NOT an objective of the General Medical Council under the 2015 Order?

Which of the following statements about the General Medical Council (Fitness to Practise and Over-arching Objective) and the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (References to Court) Order 2015 is true?

Which articles of the 2015 Order provide for a new overriding objective that requires the General Council to ensure that the Tribunal deals with cases fairly and justly?

Which section of the Health Act 1999 was amended by the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001?

True or false: The General Medical Council can delegate functions of the MPTS to the chair or other officers?

Which paragraph of Schedule 1 was amended by S.I. 2002/3135?

True or false: Assessments of professional performance or health are not included in fitness to practise cases?

Which of the following is NOT a provision that must be included in the rules made under paragraph 19F?

True or false: The General Council can delegate functions of the MPTS to the chair or other officers?

Which one of these is a power that the General Council has in relation to the MPTS?

Which Act repealed the amendments made to the Medical Act 1983 by the Health and Social Care Act 2008?

Which paragraph of Schedule 1 was amended by S.I. 2002/3135?

Which paragraph of Schedule 1 was amended by S.I. 2008/3131?

Which of the following is NOT a provision that must be included in the rules made under paragraph 19F?

Which section of the Medical Act was amended to substitute 'Fitness to Practise Panel' with 'Medical Practitioners Tribunal'?

What does the transitory provision in article 3 of the 2015 Order refer to?

Which paragraph of Schedule 1 was amended by S.I. 2008/1774?

Who appoints the chair of the MPTS?

What is the purpose of the rules made under paragraph 19F?

What is the composition of the MPTS?

Which committee of the General Council was carrying out functions relating to fitness to practise proceedings before the commencement of paragraph 19F?

Which one of these is a function of the MPTS?

True or false: The term 'Interim Orders Panel' is replaced with 'Interim Orders Tribunal' in sections 35B(4) and 47(4) of the Medical Act?

Which paragraph of the Schedule 1 was amended by S.I. 2002/3135?

True or false: The registrant members of the MPTS form a majority of the members?

Which of the following is a function of the MPTS?

Which of the following is NOT an objective of the General Medical Council under the 2015 Order?

What is the purpose of the General Council's power to make rules under paragraph 19F or 19G?

Who may not serve as a member of a Medical Practitioners Tribunal in any subsequent proceedings in the case concerned?

Which paragraph of Schedule 1 was amended by S.I. 2006/1914?

True or false: A person who serves as a member of an Interim Orders Tribunal may serve as a member of a Medical Practitioners Tribunal in any subsequent proceedings in the case concerned.

Which one of these is NOT a function that the MPTS can delegate to the chair or other officers?

True or false: A person appointed to a panel list within sub-paragraph (2)(a)(ii) or (iii) may also be appointed to a panel list within sub-paragraph (2)(a)(i).

Which articles of the 2015 Order provide for a new overriding objective that requires the General Council to ensure that the Tribunal deals with cases fairly and justly?

Which articles of the 2015 Order were brought into force on 3rd August 2015?

Which one of these is NOT a part of the new over-arching objective of the General Medical Council?

Which body is responsible for overseeing fitness to practise cases?

What is the maximum period for which a member of the MPTS may hold office during a specified period?

What is the effect of any vacancy in the membership of the MPTS or any defect in the appointment of a member?

What is the responsibility of the MPTS in relation to the declaration and registration of private interests of their members?

What is the meaning of 'registrant member' and 'lay member' in paragraph 1A?