by admin | Jan 7, 2024 | NMC Legal
Key points Regulator’s guidance must not be “slavishly” followed and that regulatory decisions must be made based on the individual merits of the case and taking into account all the relevant matters. Taking into account all the relevant matters and information, the...
by admin | Oct 19, 2023 | Case Study, NMC Legal
Another case brought to a successful conclusion at Case Examiners stage, meaning that our client’s case did not need to proceed to a full fitness to practise hearing. With the help and guidance from NMC fitness to practise defence barrister, Catherine Stock, our...
by admin | Sep 28, 2023 | NMC Legal
Any criminal conviction will be viewed as proven in a fitness to practise case, and attempts at denial could be interpreted as lack insight. An Overview of Criminal Convictions Fitness to Practise In fitness to practise proceedings, criminal convictions (or formal...
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,...
