May 26, 2019 | Doctor Legal
FollowFollowFollowFollow At a hearing at the Medical Practitioner’s Tribunal Service any party can make an application to have a witness’s evidence heard by video-link. The GMC Fitness to Practise Rules 2004, Rule 34(13) and (14) state: ‘(13) A party may, at any...
May 26, 2019 | Case Study, Doctor Legal
FollowFollowFollowFollow GMC Defence Barristers were successful in persuading the MPTS to impose a conditions of practise order for a short period for a doctor who had prescribed for himself and family members on 3 occasion where the GMC pressed for a suspension of...
Mar 10, 2019 | Case Study, Doctor Legal
FollowFollowFollowFollow Head of chambers, Stephen McCaffrey and Catherine Stock, have successfully defended a foundation doctor before the GMC’s Fitness to Practise Panel. The foundation doctor was referred to the GMC by two separate teaching hospitals for failing...