Since the UK-wide suspension of all routine dental care (and most urgent dental care) in March 2020, many dentists and dental care professionals in England have called for greater guidance from their Chief Dental Officer.…
I was recently asked to contribute to NHS Health Education England’s e-Learning for Healthcare, a programme that works in partnership with NHS and professional bodies such as Royal Colleges to support patient care by providing…
It’s ironic that, as we approached another Thursday 8pm Clap For Our Carers yesterday, one NHS Ambulance Trust was attracting criticism following the partial publication of an independent investigation into the death by suicide of…
The College of Paramedics, in collaboration with University lecturers and senior paramedics from across the UK, has created a dedicated website for final year paramedic science students joining the HCPC’s COVID-19 Temporary Register (Students). I…
On Friday, Chemist+Druggist (the community pharmacy sector publication) asked me to write a blog about the new two-part Community Pharmacy Pandemic Delivery Service, which I have been talking about on Twitter over recent days. An…
Pharmacy In Practice invited me on to their podcast today. We chatted about: Temporary deregulation of the pharmacy market My advice for pharmacists having to make difficult ethical/professional decisions How things may change in the…
On Friday evening (10 April 2020), NHS England and NHS Improvement published details of the first new services and corresponding funding for community pharmacies in England responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. With effect from 8…
There has been widespread media coverage about the many thousands of healthcare professionals altruistically returning to work (or starting work early) to assist during the Covid-19 pandemic. In this blog, I explain the temporary register…
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…
The Professional Standards Authority (the body which oversees the UK’s 10 health and care regulators) has today published its 2018/19 annual performance review of the General Pharmaceutical Council, or GPhC. On a positive note, the…
