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| Title: | GB-London: Exploring, understanding and evaluating experiences of Fitness to Practise at the GDC |
| Notice type: | Competitive Contract Notice |
| Authority: | General Dental Council |
| Nature of contract: | Not applicable |
| Procedure: | Not applicable |
| Short Description: | The GDC invites tenders for our research project. The research outcomes will enable us to understand and improve the experiences of those who are participants in the Fitness to Practise process (FtP), including their needs for support. It will also enable us to explore from first-person perspectives how the principles guiding our fitness to practise function are understood and applied. The aim of the research is to understand and learn from the experiences and perspectives of the people who have been directly involved in GDC fitness to practice processes in order to: -inform and underpin our work to understand and respond to the support needs of informants, witnesses and registrants as they progress through the fitness to practise process. -inform and underpin our ongoing ambitions to promote the principles of right touch regulation in our FtP processes, including proportionality, consistency and transparency. -inform our upstream strategy, which focuses on the prevention of harm rather than enforcement activity, including identifying insights to inform learning and action on the part of professionals to reduce levels of FtP concern raised. Underpinning the research aim are four primary objectives: -provide an important foundation for future research, monitoring and evaluation plans. -Understanding mechanisms and impact: to learn from participants at each stage of the FtP process what the impacts of their involvement are and what are the mechanisms for those impacts. This will include learning on how specific groups of participants in FtP are impacted differently. -Understanding support needs: to learn from all those involved in FtP cases, and particularly informants, witnesses and registrants, what their support needs are, what works to support them in the current approach and where there is need for improvement. This will include learning to support equal access and fairness for all stakeholders. -Defining right touch regulation: to understand from the perspectives of those directly involved in FtP cases what it means for a regulator to apply the principles of right touch regulation and how this feeds into and fits with the developing GDC approach to right touch regulation -Sustainability: during and as a result of the research, to develop approaches, processes and use methods that can be trialled and tested at GDC to contribute to ongoing research, monitoring and evaluation that could be adopted by GDC and used in all aspects of inquiry-based learning, reflective practice, transparent reporting and for a range of research purposes. We expect the project to last no more than 18 months. We anticipate the value of the Contract will be no more than £130,000 including any expenses but exclusive of VAT. For further information, please see the invitation to tender documents; which are available to download from the Delta e-sourcing portal (access code: ) |
| Published: | 03/07/2020 12:09 |
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1. Title: GB-London: Exploring, understanding and evaluating experiences of Fitness to Practise at the GDC
2. Awarding Authority:
General Dental Council
6th Floor, 1, Colmore Row, Birmingham, B4 6AJ, United Kingdom
Tel. 0121 752 0107, Email: procurement@gdc-uk.org, URL: www.gdc-uk.org
Contact: Erica Williams, Attn: Procurement Manager
3. Contract Type: Services
Sub Type: Research and development services.
4. Description: Research services. The GDC invites tenders for our research project. The research outcomes will enable us to understand and improve the experiences of those who are participants in the Fitness to Practise process (FtP), including their needs for support. It will also enable us to explore from first-person perspectives how the principles guiding our fitness to practise function are understood and applied.
The aim of the research is to understand and learn from the experiences and perspectives of the people who have been directly involved in GDC fitness to practice processes in order to:
-inform and underpin our work to understand and respond to the support needs of informants, witnesses and registrants as they progress through the fitness to practise process.
-inform and underpin our ongoing ambitions to promote the principles of right touch regulation in our FtP processes, including proportionality, consistency and transparency.
-inform our upstream strategy, which focuses on the prevention of harm rather than enforcement activity, including identifying insights to inform learning and action on the part of professionals to reduce levels of FtP concern raised.
Underpinning the research aim are four primary objectives:
-provide an important foundation for future research, monitoring and evaluation plans.
-Understanding mechanisms and impact: to learn from participants at each stage of the FtP process what the impacts of their involvement are and what are the mechanisms for those impacts. This will include learning on how specific groups of participants in FtP are impacted differently.
-Understanding support needs: to learn from all those involved in FtP cases, and particularly informants, witnesses and registrants, what their support needs are, what works to support them in the current approach and where there is need for improvement. This will include learning to support equal access and fairness for all stakeholders.
-Defining right touch regulation: to understand from the perspectives of those directly involved in FtP cases what it means for a regulator to apply the principles of right touch regulation and how this feeds into and fits with the developing GDC approach to right touch regulation
-Sustainability: during and as a result of the research, to develop approaches, processes and use methods that can be trialled and tested at GDC to contribute to ongoing research, monitoring and evaluation that could be adopted by GDC and used in all aspects of inquiry-based learning, reflective practice, transparent reporting and for a range of research purposes.
We expect the project to last no more than 18 months. We anticipate the value of the Contract will be no more than £130,000 including any expenses but exclusive of VAT.
For further information, please see the invitation to tender documents; which are available to download from the Delta e-sourcing portal (access code: )
5. CPV Codes:
73110000 - Research services.
6. NUTS Codes :
UK - UNITED KINGDOM
7. Main Site or Location of Works, Main Place of Delivery or Main Place of Performance: UNITED KINGDOM,
8. Reference Attributed by the Awarding Authority: GDC-2020-043
9. Estimated Value of Requirement: Category H: 100K to 500K
Currency: GBP
10. Deadline for Expression of Interest: 28/07/2020 12:00:00
11. Address to which they must be sent:
Not Provided
12. Other Information:
Other Information: For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-GB-London:-Exploring%2C-understanding-and-evaluating-experiences-of-Fitness-to-Practise-at-the-GDC/ADDJ42FNMM
To respond to this opportunity, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/ADDJ42FNMM
TKR-202073-PRO-16793978
Suitable for VCO: Yes
Procedure Type:OPEN
Period of Work Start date: 01/09/2020
Period of Work End date: 31/12/2021
Is this a Framework Agreement?: no