GPhC Voluntary Agreements – Worth Considering?

GPhC Voluntary Agreements – Worth Considering?

What is GPhC fitness to practise? To remain on the General Pharmaceutical Council’s (GPhC) register, pharmacists must be “fit to practise”.  The GPhC defines fitness to practise as pharmacy professionals:  “having the skills, knowledge, character and health necessary...
MPTS Interim Orders Tribunal Review Hearings

MPTS Interim Orders Tribunal Review Hearings

Interim Orders Tribunals (IOT) decide if a doctor’s practice should be restricted while an investigation takes place, and orders must be reviewed six monthly. Interim Orders Tribunals – A Brief Overview General Medical Council (GMC) investigations can take many...
MPTS Interim Orders Tribunal Review Hearings

Admitting Allegations and MPTS Sanctions

The High Court recently provided useful guidance in circumstances where doctors wholly admit allegations and what bearing this has during the sanctions stage. PSA v GMC & Anor [2023] EWHC 967 In this case, the Professional Standards Authority (PSA) challenged the...
NMC’s ‘Agreed Removal’ Explained

NMC’s ‘Agreed Removal’ Explained

The NMC is “taking a different approach” to requests from nurses to be removed from the register when they are subject to fitness to practise concerns – ‘agreed removal’. What is agreed removal? Under the Nursing & Midwifery Council’s (NMC) statutory rules,...