Maintaining Professional Boundaries for Doctors – A Cautionary Tale
A recent case serves as an important reminder to all doctors to ensure they maintain appropriate professional boundaries with patients at all times.
The GMC is calling. What doctors should do.
Contact from the GMC can be distressing for doctors and there are important things doctors should do when they receive correspondence from the GMC.
We are pleased to announce the launch of Kings View Resolutions
We are pleased to announce the launch of Kings View Resolutions, set up to help and support health and social care businesses with achieving regulatory compliance, maintaining their compliance and dealing with compliance issues arising from the workplace.
NMC Insight and Strengthened Practice
Specialist legal advice will assist nurses with advice on insight and evidence of Strengthened Practice, but early engagement is essential.
Case closed with no further action for doctor
GMC Case Examiners agreed with all our arguments, including a number of fundamental criticisms levelled at the GMC case and their expert.
GMC Interim Orders Tribunal Representation
GMC fitness to practise investigations can take years, to conclude. Can you afford to not work, or work under restrictions, during this time?
Does the GMC protect doctors?
Doctors under investigation may quickly find the GMC is far less concerned about protecting doctors highlighting the value of legal advice.
General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) Restoration
If you have previously been registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC, you can apply to re-join the GPhC register.
What difference does Insight & Remediation make before an MPT?
Does evidence of insight and remediation really make a difference before a Medical Practitioner’s Tribunal (MPT)?
GPhC Voluntary Agreements – Worth Considering?
A voluntary agreement is an arrangement between the GPhC and a pharmacy professional that seeks to allow the pharmacy professional to continue to practise, but with agreed requirements in place.
MPTS Interim Orders Tribunal Review Hearings
IOT’s decide if a doctor’s practice should be restricted while an investigation takes place and orders must be reviewed six monthly.
Admitting Allegations and MPTS Sanctions
The High Court recently provided useful guidance in circumstances where doctors wholly admit allegations and what bearing this has during the sanctions stage.
General Pharmaceutical Council Restoration Applications – What Pharmacists need to know
Pharmacists removed from the GPhC register can apply for restoration after 5 years but must show evidence of insight and remediation.
NMC’s ‘Agreed Removal’ Explained
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’.
GMC’s Presumption of Impaired Fitness to Practise
Certain proven allegations will result in a “presumption” of impaired fitness to practise by the GMC. What are these and is there any mitigation?