by admin | Nov 18, 2025 | GMC
The General Medical Council (GMC) has launched a consultation on updated guidance for doctors, physician associates (PAs), and anaesthesia associates (AAs) regarding their professional duty to raise and act on concerns about patient safety. This marks the first major...
by admin | Nov 5, 2025 | GDC, GMC, GOsC, GPhC, HCPC, NMC, SWE
When healthcare professionals appear before fitness to practise panels, their level of insight often plays a central role in determining both current impairment and sanction. Panels expect registrants to reflect on the concerns raised, understand their implications,...
by admin | Oct 7, 2025 | GMC
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) has published revised tribunal guidance that will come into effect on 24 November 2025. This update, the MPTS said, introduces “clearer decision-making frameworks for panels assessing allegations in fitness to...
by admin | Sep 8, 2025 | Fitness to Practise, GMC
The High Court upheld the GMC’s fitness to practise standards for Physician and Anaesthesia Associates, finding its framework rational, despite challenges over scope limits. Anaesthetists United Ltd, joined by the family of Emily Chesterton, brought a judicial review...
by admin | Jul 30, 2025 | GDC, GMC, GOsC, GPhC, HCPC, NMC, SWE
Fitness to practise investigations play a critical role in ensuring that healthcare professionals in the UK meet the standards required to deliver safe and effective care. However, when these investigations extend over many months or even years, they can inflict...
by admin | Jul 14, 2025 | GDC, GMC, GOsC, GPhC, HCPC, NMC, SWE
Accepted outcomes will become a new, paper-based route for resolving fitness to practise concerns without a full panel hearing, in what the PSA describes as a “fundamental change” to how regulators handle fitness to practise concerns. Under upcoming legislative...
