Lecturer Details: Fitness to practice at the GDC

Lecturer nameJonathan Green
Lecturer profileExecutive Director, Fitness to Practise.

Jonathan qualified as a solicitor in 1994 and was appointed as the GDC s Director of Fitness to Practise in December 2014. He was previously the interim Director of FtP.
He joined the regulator in 2013 as the Head of the In-house Legal Prosecutions Team having worked as a medical lawyer in private practice and the Royal College of Nursing.

In private practice, Jonathan specialised in clinical negligence, public law and medical ethics cases.

At the RCN, over 7 years, Jonathan represented over 200 nurses before their professional regulator, the NMC. He also sought significant changes to the Independent Safeguarding Authority's automatic barring scheme and was later invited to work with the Home Office on drafting the latest statutory guidance for handling Criminal Record checks.