by admin | Mar 28, 2022 | Fitness to Practise, GMC
The Good Medical Practice (GMP) is the key document in which the GMC sets out your ethical duties as a doctor, and it is used as a benchmark in virtually all tribunal decisions. Is the GMP important? When listing factors that help to determine the seriousness of...
by admin | Mar 28, 2022 | Fitness to Practise, GMC
Doctors can be issued with warnings under certain circumstances but, warnings can carry significant implications for a doctor’s careers. What are your options? GMC Warnings – what are they? Before we consider the implications and how to respond to the threat of a GMC...
by admin | Mar 28, 2022 | Fitness to Practise, GDC, GMC, GOsC, GPhC, HCPC, NMC, SWE
When you receive correspondence from your regulatory body to tell you that a complaint has been received which will formally be investigated as part of its fitness to practise process, the temptation can often be to panic which can lead to rash actions and decisions. ...
by admin | Mar 13, 2022 | Fitness to Practise, GMC
One of the most important steps to protect your medical licence is avoiding what the GMC considers to be the very worst offences. The 10 most serious offences from the perspective of the General Medical Council (GMC) are: dishonesty in role as doctor (eg falsifying...
by admin | Mar 13, 2022 | Fitness to Practise, SWE
Overview of SWE’s “accepted disposal” process, the outcome of the PSA review and discussion on the fairness of this process. What are “accepted disposal”? Under this process (also referred to as “accepted outcomes”), Social Work England (SWE) Case Examiners can decide...
by admin | Mar 13, 2022 | Fitness to Practise, HCPC
Once the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) has decided that a fitness to practise complaint falls within its regulatory jurisdiction (triage), it will move to the initial investigation stage. At this point in the HCPC fitness to practise investigation...
