by admin | Dec 3, 2024 | GDC
This recent report published this month makes grim and unhappy reading not only for the dental profession but for all healthcare regulators. Clearly being the subject of an investigation by your regulator is a stressful experience for anyone, however current processes...
by admin | Oct 28, 2024 | GDC, GMC, GOsC, GPhC, HCPC, NMC, SWE
Seek Legal Advice It’s crucial to get expert legal advice early. Fitness to practise investigations are a trial in all but name – complex, formal and adversarial. For this reason alone, health and care professionals should seek legal advice. However, this is by no...
by admin | Sep 3, 2024 | GDC
The General Dental Council (GDC) recently released updated voluntary erasure guidance, where dentists are under investigation for fitness to practise concerns seek to voluntarily remove themselves from the register. We look at the new guidance and what this means for...
by admin | Aug 20, 2024 | Fitness to Practise, GDC, GMC, GOsC, GPhC, HCPC, NMC, SWE
A recent publication by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA) highlights a rise in final decisions involving sexual misconduct and inappropriate behaviour. This type of behaviour is seen as particularly serious by regulators and, more often than not, result in...
by admin | Jul 9, 2024 | GDC, GMC, GOsC, GPhC, HCPC, NMC, SWE
When faced with a fitness to practise investigation, should health care professionals “wait and see” or does constructive engagement make a difference to the outcome of a fitness to practise investigation? Health care regulators will investigate allegations of...
by admin | Apr 16, 2024 | GDC
My client, NS, approached Kings View with respect to a long investigation conducted by the General Dental Council (GDC). There were various elements of alleged misleading and dishonest conduct. Commenting on the case, Stephen, said: “The case was complex for...
