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...
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 | Jun 4, 2024 | NMC, Uncategorized
A brief overview of the NMC’s fitness to practice investigation process and what nurses can expect if they are subject to a fitness to practice investigation. What the NMC means by Fitness to Practise The Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) investigates allegations...
by admin | Apr 2, 2024 | NMC
If a concern is deemed serious & credible, the NMC will open an investigation, including consideration of early admissions. However, careful consideration should be given to early admissions. NMC Investigations If a concern is considered serious and within the NMC...
