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Request a call backPractising as a midwife in the UK – Updated NMC Guidance
An overview of the NMC’s updated guidance on the role of midwives including scope, standards & fitness to practise.
Fitness to Practise – Reflection, Insight & Remediation
Reflection & insight are important in fitness to practise proceedings but what is the significance of these and what does insight look like in practice?
NMC’s Fitness to Practise Guidance for Employers: An Overview
An overview of the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (NMC) new fitness to practise resource for employers.
No further conditions of practice for nurse in NMC case
Catherine Stock, joint head of chambers, represented a nurse at a NMC conditions of practice review hearing.
Brexit implications for fitness to practise
With the UK’s departure from the European Union only weeks away, what does Brexit mean for healthcare regulation in the UK?
How the NMC determines “seriousness” in fitness to practise
In this article, I will look at how the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) determine seriousness in fitness to practise proceedings and decisions.
The future looks bright – Fitness to Practise beyond Covid
Whilst there are many things about Covid that is devastating, a positive is that it forced healthcare regulators to reform, adapt and do so quickly.
What is an interim order?
A NMC statement on a nurse charged with murder confirmed the issue will be given considered by a interim order hearing. What is an interim order?
Nurse restored to the NMC Register
Kings View Chambers’ successfully restored to the NMC Register after being convicted of a serious dishonesty offence.
Annual healthcare regulators whistleblowing report 2020
The UK’s healthcare regulators have published their annual whistleblowing report the 12 months from April 2019 to March 2020.
NMC fitness to practise hearings to restart
The Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) has announced its plans to resume face to face fitness to practise hearings.
The Future of Healthcare Regulation according to Matt Hancock
What impact did the Covid19 pandemic have on the future of health and social care regulation in the UK?
NMC set to resume fitness to practise hearings
The NMC has revealed that fitness to practise proceedings could soon resume and an end of other emergency measures it imposed.
Successful appeal for nurse in data protection case
Kings View Chambers have helped a nurse successfully appeal against summary dismissal for breach of data protection.
Social Media and Fitness to Practise
The misuse of social media by health and care professionals can lead to fitness to practise investigations and sanctions.
Nursing & Midwifery Council five-year strategy
The Nursing & Midwifery Council’s (NMC) next five-year strategy has been approved. A fitness to practise view on the strategy.
NMC Fitness to Practise Standards not ‘fair and transparent’ – PSA
The Professional Standards Authority’s annual review of Nursing and Midwifery Council found it has not met all fitness to practise standards. The PSA’s annual performance review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council was undertaken to assess whether they are meeting the...
Kings View Chambers secure no case to answer for nurse
NMC Defence Barristers secure a finding of no case to answer for a nurse accused of dishonesty in relation to post graduate course funding.
NMC Defence Barristers in NMC success
NMC Defence Barristers have been again successful in persuading the NMC to take no further action for a nurse arrested for drink and disorderly and two assaults.
NMC Emergency Procedures Order 2020
The Order contains amendments to the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s fitness to practise rules to ensure the NMC’s processes can continue during the period of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Contextual factors in Fitness to Practise
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.
Guilty before proven innocent? NMC fitness to practise
The Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (NMC) fitness to practise processes and support for registrants have been criticised by campaign group NMC Watch.
Guilty before proven innocent? NMC fitness to practise
The Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (NMC) fitness to practise processes and support for registrants have been criticised by campaign group NMC Watch.
NMC Defence Barristers successfully negotiate consensual panel determination
NMC Defence Barristers have successfully negotiated a consensual panel determination for our client in a complex multi-handed case involving issues of poor clinical practise.
Successful first-time restoration application for nurse
NMC Defence Barristers have been successful with a first-time restoration application.
NMC Defence Barristers assist nurse with disciplinary hearing
NMC Defence Barristers assist another nurse with her disciplinary hearing and no onward referrals were made.
Engagement in Fitness to Practise Process is Vital
This case occurred in the context of the NMC’s fitness to practise process but principle remains the same for all healthcare professionals.
NMC consider “context” in fitness to practise cases
The Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (NMC) governing council will consider the need for new ways to identify and consider the context of incidents in fitness to practise cases when it meets this week.
Behaviour, attitude and fitness to practise
Evidence of a registrant’s behaviour and attitude during and after an incident and during fitness to practise proceedings is vitally important. We have represented healthcare professionals facing fitness to practise proceedings for many years. In our experience of...
Record number of nurses but ageing concerns remain
The Nursing and Midwifery Council is reporting record number of nurses but remain concerned about aging workforce.