Every month I prepare a note of the most interesting or important regulatory developments in community pharmacy over the preceding month.
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Category: Professional Discipline
Health Service Journal recently asked me to comment on the correlation between COVID19 vaccination and fitness to practise. I understand that Sajid Javid instructed all of the health and care regulators covering England to issue…
I was recently interviewed on the Baines Law podcast, questioned about my views on subjects including the length of time it takes for fitness to practise cases to progress, inequality of arms between regulators and…
A concerning study reported in today’s Guardian newspaper indicates that “one in four NHS doctors is tired to the point of impairment”. This study was of a relatively small sample size (532 respondents out of just…
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…
The Legal 500 United Kingdom 2022 rankings have been published and I’m delighted to again be ranked in the categories of Health and Dispute Resolution alongside my fantastic colleagues.
Earlier this year, I was quoted in Health Service Journal discussing the Department of Health & Social Care’s consultation on making COVID19 vaccination a mandatory condition of deployment in older age (>65) care homes. Today,…
The nicest thing that has ever happened in my professional life happened last week, when I received a letter informing me that the College of Paramedics’ Honours & Awards Committee had seen fit to name…
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…
A very interesting (but concerning) study has been published in this month’s BMJ Open – ‘Does occupational distress raise the risk of alcohol use, binge-eating, ill health and sleep problems among medical doctors? A UK cross-sectional…