Professional regulatory systems often refer to rehabilitation and remediation to describe the route to safe practise following a breach of a code of ethics. In the USA the notion of rehabilitation is commonplace, with centres across the country for rehab, from medical rehabilitation, to drug and alcohol, to centres for sex addiction and even for professional misconduct. The notion of a second chance and recovering after a failure is widely accepted and state licensing boards may include officers whose job it is to monitor registrants rehabilitation following a finding of fact. Here in the UK rehab is most often associated with drug and alcohol recovery or with life after a criminal conviction. The term is from time to time used in relation to professional conduct, remediation being the term more frequently used in guidance to regulatory panels. Remediation too is a challenging concept in the UK, and although the first dictionary definition is helpful ‘The action of remedying some
Concerning professional conduct and regulation in the UK