Apr 30, 2019 | Doctor Legal
FollowFollowFollowFollow The GMC may refer a doctor for an interim orders hearing at the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service [MPTS] at any stage in proceedings. The role of the Interim Orders Tribunal [IOT] is to consider whether the doctor’s registration should be...
Apr 30, 2019 | Doctor Legal
FollowFollowFollowFollow eral Medical Council (GMC) has updated its practical skills and procedures list newly qualified doctors. The list, that sets out what procedures newly qualified doctors need to be able to demonstrate when they finish medical school, was...
Apr 21, 2019 | Doctor Legal
FollowFollowFollowFollow The GMC has announced plans to introduce steps designed to reduce the number of fitness to practise investigations it carries out. The announcement follows a two-year pilot looking at cases of one-off mistakes by doctors. Prior to the pilot,...
Apr 13, 2019 | Doctor Legal
FollowFollowFollowFollow e GMC has called on Doctors to check their insurance and indemnity cover as the Government launches state-backed Clinical Negligence Scheme for General Practice (CNSGP). Clinical Negligence Scheme for General Practice The scheme came into...
Apr 7, 2019 | Doctor Legal
FollowFollowFollowFollow In a previous article, I wrote about the protections for whistleblowing doctors. Article: Protections for whistleblowing doctors Following on from this, the GMC has recently announced that doctors will receive training support to call out...
Mar 31, 2019 | Doctor Legal
FollowFollowFollowFollow A renowned Urologist constructively dismissed for whistleblowing says promises of protection for doctors are repeatedly broken. Dr Peter Duffy, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust’s Doctor of the Year, said there has...