Part B: stage two - impairment

At Stage two of an medical practitioners tribunal (MPT) hearing, the MPT decides if the doctor’s fitness to practise is impaired.

This stage outlines:

• if no facts have been found proved, what steps the tribunal should take,
• if one or more facts have been found proved, what steps the tribunal should take,
• how decisions on impairment should be approached and,
• the need to record reasons for decisions on impairment.