by admin | Oct 26, 2019 | NMC Legal
Cautions must be declared to healthcare regulatory bodies such as the NMC. There is often uncertainty over cautions, what they are and whether they should be declared. What is a police caution? There is often a misconception that a police caution is a “slap on the...
by admin | Oct 20, 2019 | Case Study, NMC Legal
NMC Defence Barristers have successfully argued against a complaint of a fraudulent entry to the NMC register for a nurse. The case Nurse ST received a police caution for theft. The caution was described to ST as a “slap on the wrist”. When ST submitted her NMC...
by admin | Sep 22, 2019 | NMC Legal
El Karout -v- The Nursing and Midwifery Council [2019] EWHC 28 (Admin) In this case a midwife of over 20 years’ experience was subject to an allegation that, on the ward where she worked, the she had stolen packs of dihydrocodeine tablets prescribed for patients to...
by admin | Sep 16, 2019 | NMC Legal
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has published its annual report on whistleblowing disclosures. From 01 April 2018 to 31 March 2019, the NMC received 34 whistleblowing disclosures. The NMC reported that regulatory action taken in 18 cases and in onward referral...
by admin | Sep 5, 2019 | NMC Legal
The recent case of a Welsh nurse who was referred to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has reignited the debate about consistency in NMC fitness to practise decisions. In the case, a Welsh nurse used patient’s vagina as ventriloquist’s dummy ‘to amuse...
by admin | Aug 21, 2019 | NMC Legal
We recently reported on the NMC Defence Barrister’s Facebook page on a couple of Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) decisions that took into account the context of incidents when deciding on any sanctions to be imposed. In the first reported case, the Evening Times...
