by admin | Oct 15, 2022 | GMC
Responding to an Interim Order Extension Application In our recent article, “Responding to an Interim Order Extension Application”, we discussed the rights of health and care professionals to respond to, and challenge, applications by healthcare regulators to extend...
by admin | Oct 8, 2022 | GMC
“The effects of contextual factors” are relevant in GMC fitness to practise investigations. To what extent are contextual factors relevant, and how can a doctor make their case? The meaning of fitness to practise according to the GMC Fitness to practise, in simple...
by admin | Sep 25, 2022 | GDC, GMC, GOsC, GPhC, HCPC, NMC, SWE
Misconduct in Fitness to Practise In order to understand misconduct, you must firstly understand what fitness to practise means. Whilst each healthcare regulator’s definition is different in certain respects, generally speaking, fitness to practise means that a...
by admin | Sep 19, 2022 | GDC, GMC, GOsC, GPhC, HCPC, NMC, SWE
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 means the full extent of what you should consider when facing a...
by admin | Sep 3, 2022 | GDC, GMC, GOsC, GPhC, HCPC, NMC, SWE
Interim Orders – Brief Overview Interim Orders temporarily suspend or restrict a medical practitioner’s practice while their case is being investigated. Interim order cases may include, for example, cases of serious lack of competence or poor clinical practice,...
