by admin | May 10, 2020 | NMC Legal
The Nursing & Midwifery Council’s (NMC) next five-year strategy has been approved. A fitness to practise view on the strategy. NMC Strategy The strategy is based on three key roles that underpin the NMC’s purpose: Regulate: We promote and uphold high standards,...
by admin | Apr 18, 2020 | NMC Legal
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...
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...
