by kvcadmin | Jul 30, 2025 | GDC News, GMC News, GPhC News, HPCP News, NMC News, Social Work England News
The toll of prolonged fitness to practise investigations and the role of expert legal representation Fitness to practise investigations play a critical role in ensuring that healthcare professionals in the UK meet the standards required to deliver safe and effective...
by kvcadmin | Jul 14, 2025 | Case Examiners, GDC News, GMC News, GPhC News, HPCP News, NMC News, Social Work England News
Understanding Accepted Outcomes in Fitness to Practise Accepted outcomes will become a new, paper-based route for resolving fitness to practise concerns without a full panel hearing, in what the PSA describes as a “fundamental change” to how regulators handle fitness...
by kvcadmin | Jun 3, 2025 | Case Examiners, General, GMC Case, GMC News
Doctor avoids erasure Our client, a doctor, has avoided erasure in a complicated case involving expert evidence, unusual internal processes and integrity allegations. Dr SR, approached us just before their case was to be considered by the Case Examiners. Given the...
by kvcadmin | May 19, 2025 | GDC News, GMC News, GPhC News, HPCP News, NMC News, Social Work England News
Interim Orders in Professional Regulation Interim orders are a crucial regulatory tool used early in fitness to practise investigations but with potentially significant impacts on healthcare professionals’ practise, careers, and personal well-being. Interim...
by kvcadmin | May 5, 2025 | GDC News, GMC News, GPhC News, HPCP News, NMC News, Social Work England News
Does remediation matter in fitness to practise? We look at the importance of remediation in fitness to practise, what remediation means and how it can impact on the outcome of an investigation or hearing. What is remediation? In the context of fitness to practise,...
by kvcadmin | Apr 23, 2025 | GMC News
GMC’s duty of care. Is legal representation the answer? The position on the GMC’s duty of care is now unquestionably clear. We look at the value of legal representation to assist doctors with the stress and anxiety associated with investigations. In a previous post,...
