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 29, 2024 | Case, Fitness to Practise, HCPC, News
In a fitness to practise case that has been ongoing for a number of years, the HCPC eventually dropped the case against our client. In this case, the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) decided to proceed with the fitness to practise case against our client,...
by admin | Jan 7, 2024 | Fitness to Practise, GDC, GMC, GOsC, GPhC, HCPC, NMC, SWE
Key points Regulator’s guidance must not be “slavishly” followed and that regulatory decisions must be made based on the individual merits of the case and taking into account all the relevant matters. Taking into account all the relevant matters and information, the...
by admin | Nov 26, 2023 | Fitness to Practise, HCPC, News
My client, a Radiographer, has been cleared by a HCPC tribunal of all wrong doing in a scathing judgement of the Trust and witnesses involved. PT contacted us in June 2020 dissatisfied with his representation to date. He had been advised to make admissions. The case...
by admin | Oct 19, 2023 | GDC, GMC, GOsC, GPhC, HCPC, NMC, SWE
The case for legal advice – data and research We know, from over a combined 30 years’ experience representing doctors and other medical professionals, that legal advice and representation does make a positive difference. The difference having legal advice makes is...
by admin | Sep 28, 2023 | GDC, GMC, GOsC, GPhC, HCPC, NMC, SWE
Any criminal conviction will be viewed as proven in a fitness to practise case, and attempts at denial could be interpreted as lack insight. An Overview of Criminal Convictions Fitness to Practise In fitness to practise proceedings, criminal convictions (or formal...
