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,...
by admin | Jan 20, 2025 | NMC
My client’s fitness to practise case before the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) was closed by agreed disposal, thereby avoiding a fitness to practise hearing and further legal expense and preparation for a review. CC instructed me regarding an NMC referral...
by admin | Jan 5, 2025 | NMC
The Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (NMC) fitness to practise insights and analysis provides a clear indication of factors that place nurses and midwives at heightened risk of referrals and regulatory action. I discuss these heightened risks and look at factors that...
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 | 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...
