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
HCPC close case following Kings View’s intervention
Dr Brown approached us for advice at very early stages of an internal investigation which was proceeding a disciplinary and an HCPC referral.Dr Brown approached us for advice at very early stages of an internal investigation which was proceeding a disciplinary and an...
HCPC registrant avoids suspension
Kings View successfully resists HCPC application for immediate suspension for client accused of lack of competence alongside integrity issues.Kings View successfully resists HCPC application for immediate suspension for client accused of lack of competence alongside...
Pharmaceutical Professional’s Fitness to Practise not Impaired
M instructed Kings View Chambers to represent them in a case involving dishonesty in the workplace.In this case, M, was accused of dishonesty in the workplace. They instructed Kings View early on in the proceedings when the matter was first referred to the General...
Kings View client’s GMC registration successfully restored
A doctor who was erased from the GMC register has successfully applied for restoration with representation from Kings View.A doctor who was erased from the GMC register has successfully applied for restoration with representation from Kings View Chambers. The doctor,...
NMC News and Articles
Incorrect or Fraudulent Entries on the NMC Register
We look at the types of NMC entries, when an entry might be considered fraudulent and the powers available to the NMC.
The Future of Fitness to Practise – DHSC Consultation Response
The Department for Health and Social Care has published its response to proposals to reform fitness to practise in the UK.
A Compassionate Approach to Fitness to Practise Defence
Fitness to practise investigations are traumatic experiences. We never lose sight of the human aspects of fitness to practise investigations and hearings.