by admin | Apr 12, 2020 | Case Study, NMC Legal
Kings View Chambers secure a finding of no case to answer for a nurse accused of dishonesty in relation to post graduate course funding and signing off clinical competencies. Commenting on the case, leading NMC defence barrister, Catherine Stock said: “This case...
by admin | Apr 4, 2020 | Case Study, NMC Legal
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. As the case did not result in any criminal conviction and there was no risk of patient harm the NMC...
by admin | Apr 1, 2020 | NMC Legal
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (Emergency Procedures) (Amendment) Rules 2020 Order of Council 2020. The Order is being made in order to allow the NMC to adapt its current operating and fitness to practise procedures to respond to the Covid-19 emergency. It sits...
by admin | Mar 15, 2020 | NMC Legal
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. NMC’s Fitness to Practice Panel Helen Lockett was the former Director of...
by admin | Feb 29, 2020 | NMC Legal
The Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (NMC) fitness to practise processes and support for registrants have been criticised by campaign group NMC Watch. According to NMC Watch, nurses, midwives and nursing associates have been made to feel guilty before they have had an...
by admin | Feb 23, 2020 | NMC Legal
The Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (NMC) fitness to practise processes and support for registrants have been criticised by campaign group NMC Watch. According to NMC Watch, nurses, midwives and nursing associates have been made to feel guilty before they have had an...
