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Sanctions Guidance is not a score sheet – Court of Appeal findings from GMC v Gilbert & PSA
Jessica Etherington
15 April 2014
Case update: Arunkalaivanan v General Medical Council [2014] EWHC 873
High Court quashes finding by panel of GMC that doctor’s inappropriate breast examination was sexually motivated.
15 April 2014
Case update: General Medical Council v Qureshi [2014] EWHC 775
High Court gives guidance on extension of interim suspension orders with regard to health allegations.
15 April 2014
Case update: Clery v Health and Care Professions Council, unreported
High Court Uphold decision of Conduct and Competence Committee Panel that social worker’s fitness to practise was impaired and that she ought to be suspended for 12 months.
31 March 2014
The meaning of ‘unacceptable’ professional misconduct
Dr Peter Spencer and General Osteopathic Council [2012] EWHC 3147 (Admin)
The appellant, Dr Peter Spencer, successfully appealed a finding of unacceptable professional conduct made by the Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) of the respondent Council, the General Osteopathic Council.
This article first appeared in the Journal of Professional Negligence in March 2014.
27 March 2014
Health and social care regulation: meeting the challenges
Although not all of the nine health and social care regulators were represented at the Westminster Health Forum conference on 13 March 2014, amongst those that were, there was one thing that was preoccupying them, the imminent publication by the Law Commission of the Regulation of Health and Social Care Professions etc. Bill, now expected in early April 2014...