The Support Team Go To Digital UK Ltd I love what I do each day – providing advice and representation to professionals (in the main healthcare professionals) subject to investigation by their regulator. Often facing serious allegations which are disputed – for example clinical concerns, dishonesty, harassment or -racially motivated conduct. When speaking with new clients for the first time, I’m often struck … Read more
“Female doctors are greater in number than their male counterparts for the first time ever in the UK” “…there are now 164,440 women (50.04%) registered with a licence to practise, compared with 164,195 men (49.96%)” “The areas with most women doctors are Obstetrics and Gynaecology (63% female, 37% male) and Paediatrics (60.8% female, 39.2% male). … Read more
The recent case of Nathadwarawala v GMC (28 Feb) serves to outline how an unsigned appeal notice is likely to be dealt with by the Court. It also provides a helpful reminder as to the limited circumstances in which the Court may exercise its discretion to extend time to appeal. The Appellant doctor had submitted … Read more
At the end of the week, I always like to look back and reflect – it’s something which I have always tried to do – both in my previous career as a healthcare practitioner as well as in my current career too – as a lawyer. Like most lawyers, I am reminded almost daily, of … Read more
I love what I do each and every day – providing assistance to professionals (in the main healthcare professionals), subject to investigations by their regulator. It is hugely satisfying work, not least as a former healthcare professional myself -helping nurses, and others in the health sector, find solutions to what may feel to be intractable … Read more
The GMC had made changes to its guidance for decision makers in relation to allegations of this type. The GMC has announced these changes to its guidance stating: “The changes to the medical regulator’s Guidance for decision makers when violence and dishonesty may represent a lower risk to public protection, are part of its commitment … Read more
The recent case of GMC v Rezyk (18 December) was an appeal against sanction by the GMC following a decision by MPTS at the sanction stage to take no action. The case had involved inappropriate and sexually motivated conduct and sexual harassment of two female colleagues. Whilst all allegations had been admitted and found proved, … Read more
Many enjoy a Xmas blockbuster – and for those that work in professional regulation, this pre-Xmas decision (Aga v GDC 13 December 2023) is the equivalent – at least as far as judgments go! It provides guidance on the approach taken at sanction and specifically in relation immediate orders to ensure fairness. It was an … Read more
The GMC has recently (22 August 2023) published its updated ‘principles, values and standards’ for doctors in which ‘Sexual harassment of colleagues is covered explicitly for the first time’. The updated document says doctors: ‘must not act in a sexual way towards colleagues with the effect or purpose of causing offence, embarrassment, humiliation or distress’. … Read more
This recent judgment, concerns an appeal by the PSA against a determination of a Committee of the NMC (‘the Panel’). The Panel had decided to impose a 12-month suspension order against the nurse. The PSA contended that the order was insufficient and that the nurse should instead have been struck off (para 2). At the … Read more