by kvcadmin | Nov 18, 2025 | GMC News
The GMC’s new guidance on raising patient safety concerns: implications for doctors’ fitness to practise The GMC’s new consultation reinforces doctors’ duty to raise patient safety concerns, with fitness to practise risks for failures and a need for early expert legal...
by kvcadmin | Nov 5, 2025 | GDC News, GMC News, GPhC News, HPCP News, NMC News, Social Work England News
Assessing insight when a registrant denies allegations in fitness to practise proceedings When healthcare professionals appear before fitness to practise panels, their level of insight often plays a central role in determining both current impairment and sanction....
by kvcadmin | Oct 7, 2025 | GMC News
Changes to MPTS Tribunal Guidance: What doctors need to know This update, the MPTS said, introduces “clearer decision-making frameworks for panels assessing allegations in fitness to practise proceedings.” Key areas of focus include professional boundaries, online and...
by kvcadmin | Sep 22, 2025 | GMC Case, GMC News, News
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...
by kvcadmin | Sep 8, 2025 | GMC News
High court upholds GMC’s fitness to practise framework for physician and anaesthesia associates The High Court upheld the GMC’s fitness to practise standards for Physician and Anaesthesia Associates, finding its framework rational, despite challenges over scope...
by kvcadmin | Aug 27, 2025 | General, GMC Case, GMC News, News
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...