When should you seek legal advice during a fitness to practise investigation?
FollowFollowFollowFollow Fitness to practise investigations are a trial in all but name – complex, formal and adversarial. For this reason alone, health and care professionals should seek legal advice. However, this is by no means the full extent of what you...
Responding to an Interim Order Extension Application
FollowFollowFollowFollow Interim Orders – Brief Overview Interim Orders temporarily suspend or restrict a medical practitioner’s practice while their case is being investigated. Interim order cases may include, for example, cases of serious lack of competence...
GMC Warnings when Fitness to Practise is not Impaired
FollowFollowFollowFollow Where the GMC concludes a doctor’s fitness to practise is not impaired, but there has been a ‘significant’ departure from the Good Medical Practice, they can issue a warning to the doctor. Do GMC warnings matter? GMC Warnings The General...
Why health and care professionals trust Kings View Chambers
FollowFollowFollowFollow Our Case Success We pride ourselves on being one of the best in the business of defending health and care professionals facing fitness to practise (FtP) investigations and hearings. We specialise in FtP defence and representation, making us...
Fitness to Practise in the Present Tense
FollowFollowFollowFollow Current impairment looks at fitness to practise at the point of consideration, in the present tense, not at the time in the past when, for example, something went wrong. In practice, this means that even where there has been harm to a patient...
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