by admin | Sep 27, 2020 | NMC Legal
The UK’s healthcare regulators have published their annual whistleblowing report the 12 months from April 2019 to March 2020. Whistleblowing in Healthcare Regulation Whistleblowing is the term used when someone who works for an employer raises a concern about...
by admin | Sep 6, 2020 | NMC Legal
The Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) has announced its plans to resume face to face fitness to practise hearings. During the height of the Covid restrictions, the NMC scaled back its fitness to practise work. It cancelled fitness to practise hearings and...
by admin | Aug 18, 2020 | NMC Legal
Matt Hancock’s Future of Healthcare Recently the Health and Social Care Secretary, Matt Hancock, delivered a speech to the Royal College of Physicians about the future of healthcare. Much of what has driven his vision of the future was based on the health and social...
by admin | Jun 27, 2020 | NMC Legal
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has revealed that fitness to practise proceedings could soon resume and an end of other emergency measures it imposed. The resumption of NMC fitness to practise hearings will be discussed the next NMC council meeting. It is...
by admin | Jun 20, 2020 | Case Study, NMC Legal
Follow Follow Kings View Chambers have helped a nurse successfully appeal against summary dismissal for breach of data protection. JM instructed health and care defence barrister Catherine Stock to provide legal advice on her case, draft grounds for appeal and...
by admin | Jun 6, 2020 | NMC Legal
In the context of healthcare fitness to practise, the use of social media might not appear important or relevant. However, misuse of social media by health and care professionals can lead to fitness to practise investigations and sanctions. In this article, I will...
