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…
On 18 April 2019, the General Medical Council (“GMC”) announced the implementation of a new process to reduce the number of full fitness to practise investigations it undertakes into one-off mistakes by doctors – what…
The new Judgment of North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust v Dr Andrew Gregg may be of significant assistance to registrants who find themselves interim suspended by their regulatory body during a fitness to practise…
The Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (“HSIB”) is a unique organisation amongst healthcare systems worldwide and came into existence on 1 April 2017. Currently operating under the auspices of NHS Improvement, HSIB both guides and supports…
At this time of year I frequently get asked to assist doctors in relation to the ARCP, or Annual Review of Competence Progression, process – most commonly doctors wishing to appeal negative ARCP outcomes. Below…
You may well wonder how casino gambling is possibly related to professional discipline law. However, yesterday the Supreme Court changed the established legal test for a finding of dishonesty in criminal and professional disciplinary proceedings…
The HCPC, or Health and Care Professions Council, is the UK’s second largest health and social care regulator and regulates 350,000 individuals from 16 different professions. Just 6% of HCPC registrants are paramedics and 27%…
