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 able to practice unrestricted
A number of recent cases, where doctors were sanctioned by the GMC, has raised questions about the regulator’s stance on the issue of doctors taking part in climate protests. Is the GMC’s stance justified and what should doctors know when they consider taking part in...
NMC finds no misconduct for our client
A number of recent cases, where doctors were sanctioned by the GMC, has raised questions about the regulator’s stance on the issue of doctors taking part in climate protests. Is the GMC’s stance justified and what should doctors know when they consider taking part in...
NMC closes investigation with no further action for our client
A number of recent cases, where doctors were sanctioned by the GMC, has raised questions about the regulator’s stance on the issue of doctors taking part in climate protests. Is the GMC’s stance justified and what should doctors know when they consider taking part in...
Nurse’s fitness to practise case concluded by agreed disposal
Our client’s fitness to practise case before the NMC was closed by agreed disposal, thereby avoiding a fitness to practise hearing and further legal expense and preparation for a review.Our client’s fitness to practise case before the NMC was closed by agreed...
NMC News and Articles
NMC finds no misconduct for our client
In this case our client, F, faced fitness to practise proceedings before the NMC dating back to 2018.
NMC closes investigation with no further action for our client
The Nursing & Midwifery Council has closed its investigation with no further action take for our client.
Nurse’s fitness to practise case concluded by agreed disposal
Our client’s fitness to practise case before the NMC was closed by agreed disposal thereby avoiding an fitness to practise hearing and further legal expense and preparation for a review.