Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC) Defence Barristers
Kings View is a leading chambers specialising in healthcare law and regulation. We have vast experience in defending and representing all healthcare professionals in all courts and tribunals. With our vast experience in healthcare regulation comes an understanding of the complexities of working in health and social care. We can provide health and social care professionals with high quality specialist advocacy and advisory services.
HCPC Fitness to Practise
Kings View is a leading chambers specialising in healthcare law and regulation. We have vast experience in defending and representing all healthcare professionals in all courts and tribunals.
With our vast experience in healthcare regulation comes an understanding of the complexities of working in health and social care. We can provide health and social care professionals with high quality specialist advocacy and advisory services.
If you are a health or care professional facing issues with registration or have been referred to the Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC) for investigation then we can help. Kings View can defend and represent you at hearing and will take care of preparing your case.
What we do
- HCPC fitness to practise referrals
- HCPC Conduct and Competence Committee Hearings
- HCPC Health Panel Hearings
- HCPC Panels regarding fraudulent entry
- Appeals against a HCPC Panel determination
- Interim Order hearings
- Appeals against an Interim Orders Panel determination
- Preparing your case for the Investigating Committee
- Registration advice
- Appeal against refusal of registration or re-registration
- Restoration to the Register
- Investigation and disciplinary hearings at work
- Criminal investigation and proceedings
- Police cautions
- DBS [Disclosure and Barring Service] issues
Recent Cases
Case review: GMC closes case against doctor without sanction
The General Medical Council (GMC) has closed a Provisional Enquiry into doctor A with no further action taken. The enquiry followed a complaint concerning Dr A’s treatment of an elderly patient. The General Medical Council (GMC) has closed a Provisional Enquiry into...
Doctor escapes serious regulatory action following fitness to practise investigation
A doctor has received a formal warning following a fitness to practise investigation, avoiding more serious regulatory action after a drink driving incident.A doctor has received a formal warning following a fitness to practise investigation, avoiding more serious...
Doctor secures successful outcome at MPTS hearing following expert legal support
A doctor has successfully defended their professional standing following a full fitness to practise hearing before the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS). A doctor has successfully defended their professional standing following a full fitness to practise...
GMC fitness to practise case success: avoiding erasure after criminal conviction
A doctor facing potential erasure from the medical register has successfully navigated the General Medical Council’s (GMC) fitness to practise process following representation by Kings View Chambers. A doctor facing potential erasure from the medical register has...
HCPC News and Articles
The toll of prolonged fitness to practise investigations and the role of expert legal representation
Fitness to practise investigations help uphold UK care standards, but prolonged cases can cause serious personal and professional harm to healthcare professionals.
Understanding Accepted Outcomes in Fitness to Practise
Accepted outcomes create a paper-based route for resolving fitness to practise cases; examiners may impose measures if offers go unanswered
Updates to HCPC Sanctions Policy
We look at the Health and Care Professions Council’s (HCPC) changes to its Sanctions Policy and what this may mean for health care professionals regulated by it.