From Tuesday 22 – Thursday 24 May 2018, the National Pharmacy Association’s continued appeal against the government’s decision to reduce community pharmacy funding by circa £113m was heard at the Court of Appeal in London. …
The College of Paramedics recently asked me to write a brief guide to attending an inquest, for the assistance of their paramedic members. The following article was published in the College’s journal, Paramedic Insight, on…
Mike Hewitson (pharmacy contractor/NPA board member) and I have written a blog together for Chemist+Druggist magazine regarding the current NHS England consultation on prescribing for certain ‘minor’ conditions. Do make your views known before the…
This year I have received a large number of enquiries from community pharmacists regarding what might be termed ‘vaccination wars’. It is a sad reflection on the current state of NHS funding that the need…
Although the Department of Health has repeatedly expressed its intention to decriminalise community pharmacy dispensing errors over recent years, little in the way of tangible progress occurred until Tuesday 14 November, when Stephen Brine MP…
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%…
I’ve been representing teachers before the NCTL, or National College for Teaching & Leadership, since its inception in 2013 (replacing the Teaching Agency). Statistically, an astonishing 84% of all teachers who appear before a Professional…
A solicitor friend, AKA Dispute Adviser, has recently written this interesting blog questioning whether the threat of disciplinary proceedings incentivises professionals to do a better job. This is something which The Legal Services Consumer Panel…
With effect from 31 October 2017, the Care Quality Commission (Reviews and Performance Assessments) Regulations 2014 will be amended to empower CQC to inspect and rate a wider range of independent healthcare providers. The affected providers…
