OHPA
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The Office of the Health Professions Adjudicator (OHPA) is a new independent body established under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 which will have responsibility for adjudicating on fitness to practise cases involving doctors and opticians registered to practise in the UK. Charged with judicial decision making on some of the most sensitive high profile cases, it must observe the highest standards.Opening its doors in April 2011, OHPA will provide healthcare professionals and the public with real improvements in the process of adjudication of complaints about doctors and opticians. The General Medical Council (GMC) and the General Optical Council (GOC) will no longer be responsible both for investigating complaints and presenting cases before panels as well as for the arrangements under which panels make decisions. Instead, responsibility for arrangements under which decisions are made will be carried out by OHPA independently. The new structure will remove scope for perceptions that adjudication processes are not impartial, establishing the separation of investigation, prosecution and adjudication in line with modern legal and judicial practice.
