by admin | Mar 28, 2022 | Fitness to Practise, GDC, GMC, GOsC, GPhC, HCPC, NMC, SWE
Remediation is where a doctor addresses concerns about their conduct, behaviour or health. Why it is important and what remediation looks like in practice? What is remediation? In broad terms, remediation refers to rectifying or correcting a certain behaviour that...
by admin | Mar 28, 2022 | Fitness to Practise, GDC, GMC, GOsC, GPhC, HCPC, NMC, SWE
Healthcare regulators take a particularly serious view of breaching professional boundaries. What are personal boundaries and how to avoid the pitfalls. What are personal boundaries? The nature of the patient/carer relationship is such that healthcare professionals...
by admin | Mar 28, 2022 | Fitness to Practise, GDC, GMC, GOsC, GPhC, HCPC, NMC, SWE
When you receive correspondence from your regulatory body to tell you that a complaint has been received which will formally be investigated as part of its fitness to practise process, the temptation can often be to panic which can lead to rash actions and decisions. ...
by admin | Mar 13, 2022 | Fitness to Practise, SWE
Overview of SWE’s “accepted disposal” process, the outcome of the PSA review and discussion on the fairness of this process. What are “accepted disposal”? Under this process (also referred to as “accepted outcomes”), Social Work England (SWE) Case Examiners can decide...
by admin | Mar 13, 2022 | Fitness to Practise, GDC, GMC, GOsC, GPhC, HCPC, NMC, SWE
Dr Raied Haris lose further appeal in sexually “motivated” conduct case and where the GMC was advised to rethink the way it accuses doctors. Background The allegations against Dr Haris arose from his work as a GP. Two patients accused the doctor of undertaking...
by admin | Mar 13, 2022 | Fitness to Practise, GDC, GMC, GOsC, GPhC, HCPC, NMC, SWE
Criminal offending can affect your fitness to practise. Healthcare regulators require disclosure of criminal offending but when and what to declare? Criminal offending and fitness to practise Unless a caution or conviction is protected, you should declare cautions and...
