A UK-based solicitor blogging about defending professionals and regulatory law, mainly in the healthcare sector
The British Medical Association, or BMA, has commenced the Pre-action Protocol for Judicial Review in respect of the government’s u-turn on removing the General Medical Council’s right of appeal against fitness to practise decisions. The…
The HCPC (The Health and Care Professions Council) is conducting a consultation on its proposed new Sanctions Policy and I would really encourage registrants in particular to respond. Many of the points we’ve included in…
Some regulators are impervious to criticism and use public funds to defend indefensible actions. The latest example of this is the Care Quality Commission, as set out in the reported Judicial Review decision of Cygnet…
Every month I send clients a note of the most interesting or important regulatory developments in community pharmacy over the preceding month. During April 2022, these were: The Pharmacy Representation Review Steering Group’s proposals on the…
As time goes on, I’m seeing more fitness to practise cases arising from COVID19-related activities. My colleagues and I have previously posted about the Irish GP interim suspended after describing COVID-19 as a hoax and the first…
Some of my recent tweets about community pharmacies claiming their COVID19 costs were turned into a Chemist+Druggist article today. I shared my top tips on Twitter following the 28 June announcement that PSNC had reached…
There’s an interesting new High Court decision about how regulators plead fitness to practise (“FtP”) allegations against healthcare professionals suspected of sexually motivated conduct. For many years now, such allegations have generally been pleaded in…
Professional Standards Authority for Health & Social Care v Health and Care Professions Council & R [2020] 3 WLUK 95 We recently successfully defended a High Court fitness to practise appeal, resulting in the reported decision…
