by admin | Sep 25, 2022 | NMC Legal
Misconduct in Fitness to Practise In order to understand misconduct, you must firstly understand what fitness to practise means. Whilst each healthcare regulator’s definition is different in certain respects, generally speaking, fitness to practise means that a...
by admin | Sep 18, 2022 | NMC Legal
Fitness to practise investigations are a trial in all but name – complex, formal and adversarial. For this reason alone, health and care professionals should seek legal advice. However, this is by no means the full extent of what you should consider when...
by admin | Sep 18, 2022 | Case Study, NMC Legal
Kings View Chambers secure no case to answer for nurse who made a mistake in their re-registration and revalidation. In this case a nurse made an entry error when completing their re-registration and revalidation with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). The...
by admin | Sep 3, 2022 | NMC Legal
Interim Orders – Brief Overview Interim Orders temporarily suspend or restrict a medical practitioner’s practice while their case is being investigated. Interim order cases may include, for example, cases of serious lack of competence or poor clinical practice,...
by admin | Aug 27, 2022 | NMC Legal
Our Case Success We pride ourselves on being one of the best in the business of defending health and care professionals facing fitness to practise (FtP) investigations and hearings. We specialise in FtP defence and representation, making us experts in this field. We...
by admin | Aug 23, 2022 | NMC Legal
Current impairment looks at fitness to practise at the point of consideration, in the present tense, not at the time in the past when, for example, something went wrong. In practice, this means that even where there has been harm to a patient or service user, if a...
