by admin | Nov 26, 2023 | Fitness to Practise, HCPC, News
My client, a Radiographer, has been cleared by a HCPC tribunal of all wrong doing in a scathing judgement of the Trust and witnesses involved. PT contacted us in June 2020 dissatisfied with his representation to date. He had been advised to make admissions. The case...
by admin | Nov 1, 2023 | Fitness to Practise, GMC, News
Our client, Dr MK, approached Kings View Chambers very close to the original fitness to practise listing in a matter which was, at that stage, almost inevitably going to lead to erasure by the MPTS. We intervened and secured a postponement of the hearing in order to...
by admin | Jun 11, 2022 | Fitness to Practise, GDC, GMC, GOsC, GPhC, HCPC, NMC, SWE
What is Fit to Practise? Generally speaking, a health and care professional is fit to practise if they have the training, skills, knowledge, character and health to do their job safely and effectively. Where a regulator has concerns about a health and care...
by admin | May 15, 2022 | Fitness to Practise, GMC
In this case, the High Court refused an application to extend the time for an appeal, restating the correct legal analysis. Dr Gyorgy Rakoczy The case before Justice Fordham relates to a decision of a Medical Practitioners Tribunal (“MPT”) on 27 April 2021, that Dr...
by admin | May 8, 2022 | Fitness to Practise, GMC
MPTS guidance, approved by the GMC, lists mitigating and aggravating factors a tribunal will take in to consideration. We look at these and their significance when considering fitness to practise and sanctions. A medical practitioner’s tribunal (MPT) will consider...
by admin | May 1, 2022 | Fitness to Practise, GMC
Kings View Chambers’ joint head of Chambers and leading GMC Defence Barrister, Catherine Stock, represented Dr US. Before the GMC, she argued successfully that the doctor’s actions did not necessarily warrant a referral to a fitness to practise tribunal, given...
