Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) Defence Barristers
Kings View Chambers is a leading chambers who has gained an excellent reputation for representing and defending nurses and midwives before the Nursing & Midwifery Council. As a leading chambers specialising in healthcare law and regulation, our barristers give high quality specialist advice and have unrivalled experience in defending and representing nurses and midwives including issues with registration, allegations made against you for poor professional competence, health issues and allegations of misconduct.
NMC Fitness to Practise
Kings View is a leading chambers who has gained an excellent reputation for representing and defending nurses and midwives before the Nursing & Midwifery Council. As a leading chambers specialising in healthcare law and regulation, our barristers give high quality specialist advice and have unrivalled experience in defending and representing nurses and midwives including issues with registration, allegations made against you for poor professional competence, health issues and allegations of misconduct.
If you have been referred to the Nursing and Midwifery Council, it is important that you seek professional legal advice to protect your reputation and professional career. Our barristers have experience acting for nurses in both the public and private sectors.
We are a leading public access barristers chambers’ specialising in healthcare law which means that you can instruct us directly without the need to go through a law firm which can incur additional unnecessary costs.
What we do
- NMC fitness to practise referrals
- NMC fitness to practise hearings
- Appeals against a Fitness to Practise Panel determination
- Interim Order hearings
- Appeals against an Interim Orders Panel determination
- Preparing your case before the Case Examiners
- Help with the decision of the Case Examiners
- Help with a consensual panel determination
- Help with voluntary removal
- 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
NMC Student Fitness to Practise Defence Barristers
The standards set by the Nursing and Midwifery Council expected of registered nurses and midwives apply equally to nursing and midwifery students. A finding of impaired fitness to practise could have lasting and significant implications for nursing and midwifery students.
We also act for, and represent, nursing and midwifery students facing competency, conduct and other fitness to practise proceedings.
Recent Cases
Doctor free to practice without restriction
Our client faced a number of allegations but with our representation, their fitness to practise was not found impaired, and they are free to practice without restriction.Our client faced a number of allegations but with our representation, their fitness to practise...
Pharmacist cleared of all charges
Our client was cleared of all charges brought against them by the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).Our client was cleared of all charges brought against them by the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC). The client was recommended our services from a former...
Doctor avoids erasure sanction
Where the GMC (or MPTS) deems there to be evidence of impaired fitness to practise, they will go on to assess whether the doctor poses a risk to public protection that requires action on the part of the GMC (or MPTS). A look at the criteria the GMC & MPTS decision...
No case to answer in HCPC case for our client
With advice and representation from Kings View Chambers, we have secured a no case to answer for our client, who was facing allegations before the HCPC.In this case, our client was facing allegations regarding impaired fitness to practise before the Health and Care...
NMC News and Articles
Sexual Misconduct & Fitness to Practise
This type of behaviour is seen as particularly serious by regulators and, more often than not, result in the most severe sanctions.
“Wait and See” – Is it the right fitness to practise defence strategy?
When faced with a fitness to practise investigation, should health care professionals “wait and see” or does constructive engagement make a difference?
What you can Expect from an NMC Fitness to Practise Inspection
A brief overview of the NMC’s fitness to practice investigation process and what nurses can expect if they are subject to an investigation.