by kvcadmin | Mar 28, 2020 | GMC News, GPhC News, HPCP News, NMC News
FollowFollowFollowFollow The Government has introduced legislation to recall retired healthcare professionals or those who have left their respective healthcare regulator’s registers in the last three years and are deemed fit to practise. Although the recall will be...
by kvcadmin | Mar 22, 2020 | GDC News, GMC News, GPhC News, HPCP News, NMC News, Social Work England News
FollowFollowFollowFollow During this extraordinary time, fitness to practise panels and tribunals have been cancelled or postponed. What does this mean for healthcare professionals? Healthcare regulators As the country responds to the Covid-19 outbreak, there is...
by kvcadmin | Mar 19, 2020 | GDC News, GMC News, GPhC News, HPCP News, NMC News, Social Work England News
FollowFollowFollowFollow As the Government works to contain the spread of the coronavirus outbreak, it is implementing a number of emergency measures including the Coronavirus Bill. Increasing the available health and social care workforce There is recognition at the...
by kvcadmin | Mar 15, 2020 | GMC News, GPhC News, HPCP News, NMC News, Social Work England News
FollowFollowFollowFollow The recent case of nurse Helen Lockett before the NMC’s Fitness to Practice Panel has raised important questions about the significance of “contextual factors” in fitness to practise cases. NMC’s Fitness to Practice Panel Helen Lockett was the...
by kvcadmin | Mar 8, 2020 | GDC News, GMC News, GPhC News, HPCP News, NMC News, Social Work England News
FollowFollowFollowFollow Healthcare regulator’s joint statement on the implications of healthcare workers’ decision making and concerns raised when treating patients with coronavirus. In the agreed joint statement, the healthcare regulators recognised that “…in highly...
by kvcadmin | Feb 2, 2020 | GDC News, GMC News, GPhC News, HPCP News, NMC News
FollowFollowFollowFollow We have previously written about the importance of engagement with a fitness to practise investigation and process. In our previous article, we reported on research published by the General Medical Council (GMC) that found that the outcome of...
