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...
by admin | Jun 3, 2025 | Fitness to Practise, GMC
Dr SR, approached Stephen just before their case was to be considered by the Case Examiners. Given the allegations and evidence, there was no prospect of the matter being stopped at that stage, so focus moved quickly to case strategy. It was a complicated matter...
by admin | May 19, 2025 | GDC, GMC, GOsC, GPhC, HCPC, NMC, SWE
Interim Orders in Professional Regulation: Balancing Safety and Humanity Interim orders are a regulatory tool used during the early stages of a fitness to practise investigation. For healthcare professionals, being subject to an interim order can be a challenging...
by admin | May 5, 2025 | GDC, GMC, GOsC, GPhC, HCPC, NMC, SWE
What is remediation? In the context of fitness to practise, remediation refers to the process by which a professional—often in a healthcare or related regulated field—takes deliberate, demonstrable steps to address concerns that have been raised about their conduct,...
