by kvcadmin | Apr 3, 2020 | GDC News, GMC News, GPhC News, HPCP News, NMC News, Social Work England News
“Impairment is in the present tense” – High Court The High Court reaffirmed important legal fitness to practise principles in the case of PSA v HCPC recently. The High Court reaffirmed important legal fitness to practise principles in the case of PSA v HCPC...
by kvcadmin | Mar 31, 2020 | GDC News, GMC News, GPhC News, HPCP News, News, NMC News, Social Work England News
FollowFollowFollowFollow Kings View Chambers are setup to support and represent healthcare professionals with remote hearings whilst fitness to practise hearings are postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Interim restrictions All the healthcare regulatory bodies...
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...
