No case to answer does not mean case over

Even when nurses and midwives are exonerated they still struggle to gain employment and regain the professional confidence they had before investigation.

This is damaging to our profession and damaging to patients who miss out on these experienced nurses and midwives giving their care as they become risk averse and practice defensively

25% of nurses and midwives who had been through FtP that we surveyed returned to work at a lower level than before