Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey is facing a disciplinary hearing later over allegations she hid her temperature during checks on her return to the UK.
It is not known if the Scottish medical worker, who was infected with the virus in December 2014 while working in Sierra Leone, will attend the two-day hearing in Edinburgh.
A panel from the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), which has the power to strike workers off the professional register, will consider claims she gave dishonest answers to medical staff during screening at Heathrow.
Details of the finalised charges which will be considered have not yet been released by the NMC, but draft allegations emerged last month, something which Ms Cafferkey received an apology for.
It is alleged Ms Cafferkey "allowed an incorrect temperature to be recorded" on 29 December 2014 and "intended to conceal from Public Health England staff that you had a temperature higher than 38C".
It is claimed she omitted to tell the Public Health England screening staff who took her temperature at the airport that she had recently taken paracetamol which might have affected her temperature reading.
The registered nurse went to Sierra Leone to work with the sick at the height of the outbreak of the highly infectious disease and then returned to Scotland, via Heathrow, before she was diagnosed.
She spent a month in an isolation unit at London's Royal Free Hospital before recovering, but was admitted to hospital on two separate occasions after suffering complications.
At one stage she was in a critical condition.
Earlier this year, Ms Cafferkey spoke of her stress that the claims had not been dealt in the more-than 18-month-period since she had returned to the UK.
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