by admin | Sep 8, 2023 | NMC Legal
Nurses can avoid the anxiety and cost of a full fitness to practise hearing through consensual panel determinations but care should be taken when deciding the best route to take. NMC Consensual Panel – Overview A consensual panel determination offer nurses and...
by admin | Jul 22, 2023 | NMC Legal
NMC Fitness to Practise The Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) does not have a definitive definition of fitness to practise. Broadly speaking, however, when the NMC refers to fitness to practise, it says: “Fitness to practise is about managing the risk that a...
by admin | Apr 29, 2023 | NMC Legal
The NMC is “taking a different approach” to requests from nurses to be removed from the register when they are subject to fitness to practise concerns – ‘agreed removal’. What is agreed removal? Under the Nursing & Midwifery Council’s (NMC) statutory rules,...
by admin | Apr 18, 2023 | NMC Legal
Impairment is defined in the present tense. Key to considering current impairment, is insight and remediation – seeking legal advice at the earliest possible opportunity is important. NMC Fitness to Practise The Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) does not have a...
by admin | Mar 3, 2023 | NMC Legal
The NMC will investigate allegations about whether an entry on its register is fraudulent or incorrect, and will act if an entry is fraudulent. We look at the types of NMC entries, when an entry might be considered fraudulent, and the powers available to the NMC....
by admin | Feb 23, 2023 | NMC Legal
The Department for Health and Social Care has published its response to proposals to reform fitness to practise in the UK. In what has been seen as an important step, the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) has published its response to the 2022 consultation...
