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Keeping the peace at Christmas – top tips for shared parenting over the festive season
Lauren Evans
5 February 2018
Press Round-Up: Regulatory and Professional Discipline December 2017 - January 2018
Recent news relating to the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), General Medical Council (GMC), Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
2 February 2018
Lessons learned: the duty of candour in practical terms
The recent case of General Medical Council v Bawa-Garba will have escaped the attention of very few medical professionals.
23 November 2017
Actions speak louder than words in respect of insight
McDermott v HCPC [2017] EWHC 2899 (Admin)
Hearing date: 7th November 2017
Before: Mrs Justice Yip
15 August 2017
Criminal consequences for accessing medical records without a business purpose
Doctors, dentists, psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and other healthcare professionals tempted to look at the medical records of members of their family or friends without a ‘business purpose’ should read with interest the latest warning issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), namely that “NHS employees .. unlawfully accessing patient records [are committing] an offence”. The warning is equally applicable to those working in private healthcare settings and to other professionals who have access to personal data (broadly defined as being data that relates to a living individual who can be identified from it).
2 August 2017
How long is too long to be subject to Conditions of Practice?
Patricia Annon and The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
[2017] EWHC 1879 (Admin)