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…
Few will be unfamiliar with the case of breast surgeon Ian Paterson who, in 2017, was convicted of both wounding with intent and unlawful wounding of 10 patients, then sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment. This…
The Legal 500 United Kingdom 2020 rankings have been published and I’m delighted to find myself ranked as a recommended lawyer in the categories of Health, Dispute Resolution and Sport (‘Sport’ relating to my work…
The Pharmaceutical Journal recently sought my advice for a professional dilemma piece about handling online criticism. The published article can be read here. In response to a distressed pharmacist, I advised: Social media provides an…
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…
On Monday 1 April, the Minister of State for Care, Caroline Dinenage, issued a Written Ministerial Statement confirming the commencement of the State-backed Clinical Negligence Scheme for GPs, or CNSGP. The key thing to note…
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…
