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 | 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...
by admin | Sep 8, 2023 | NMC
Nurses can avoid the anxiety and cost of a full fitness to practise hearing through consensual panel determinations, but care should be taken when deciding the best route to take. NMC Consensual Panel – Overview A consensual panel determination offer nurses and...
by admin | Jul 22, 2023 | NMC
NMC Fitness to Practise The Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) does not have a definitive definition of fitness to practise. Broadly speaking, however, when the NMC refers to fitness to practise, it says: “Fitness to practise is about managing the risk that a...
by admin | Apr 29, 2023 | NMC
The NMC is “taking a different approach” to requests from nurses to be removed from the register when they are subject to fitness to practise concerns – ‘agreed removal’. What is agreed removal? Under the Nursing & Midwifery Council’s (NMC) statutory rules,...
