Other Advocacy Services
Other advocacy services offered by our team of public access defence barristers.
Fit to Practise – An Explanation of the Restoration Process
If you have been struck off, you can apply for restoration. The process is complicated and evidence has shown legal representation is key to success.
Kings View persuaded NMC not to open an investigation
Kings View persuaded NMC not to open an investigation in a case involving a nurse who signed as a checker when they had not personally witnessed the care.
Kings View achieves successful outcomes for nurses
Kings View Chambers continues to achieve successful outcomes for nurses facing NMC fitness to practise investigations and hearings.
Can you expect your employer to support you through your fitness to practise investigation?
Support from your employer will be limited, but there is clear evidence that legal representation can make a positive difference to the outcome of your case.
Legal representation key to fitness to practise success
Research concludes health & care professionals without legal representation face more serious outcomes during fitness to practise proceedings.
Kings View successful in NMC Conditions of Practice Order review
Kings View Chambers succeed in revocation of NMC Conditions of Practice Order.
NMC Case Examiners find no case to answer for nurse
Kings View represented a nurse, FA, who was facing a fitness to practise investigation. With Kings View’s assistance, NMC Case Examiners find no case to answer.
Kings View Chambers secure no case to answer for nurse
Kings View Chambers were successful at NMC Case Examiners stage in securing no case to answer for this nurse.
NMC moving away from “remediation”
The NMC are moving away from using ‘remediation’ to ‘strengthening practice’, a more “positive and accessible terminology” to “better encourage” professionals to engage early on with their fitness to practise process. What is ‘strengthening practice’ that...
Racial discrimination, nursing and fitness to practise
The case of Melanie Hayes has attracted public interest. We look at the case & how the outcome will impact NMC fitness to practise decisions in the future.
Kings View successful review of NMC Striking-off Order
Kings View successfully overturned a nurse’s striking off order using an NMC internal mechanism for review. This is thought to be the first application in many years.
Nurse avoids NMC suspension
Kings View persuaded a NMC fitness to practise panel to impose the least serious sanction in a case relating to issue of drug administration and dishonesty.
7 things to help you through a fitness to practise investigation
When you receive correspondence from your regulatory body the temptation can often be to panic which can lead to rash actions and decisions.
NMC Fitness to Practise Improvement Priorities
We look at the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (NMC) “top priorities” for improvements to its fitness to practise investigations and processes.
Contextual factors in NMC fitness to practise
Context is a key consideration in fitness to practise investigations. In this article, we will look at contextual factors the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) considers important.
Restoration to the NMC register
You need to apply for restoration if you have been removed or struck off by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
“Taking account of context” – NMC’s new Fitness to Practise Commitments
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has developed eight new commitments it will apply when investigating and dealing with fitness to practise concerns.
The future of Fitness to Practise – DHSC Consultation
An important consultation to overhaul fitness to practise has been launched by the Department of Health and Social Care.