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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
1 March 2013
Regulatory Press Round-Up: February 2013
- The Department of Health (DoH) have issued a consultation on a proposal which would require all healthcare professionals to have indemnity insurance. The proposal does not extend to Social Workers in England. It is thought that the requirement will be met either through an employer or through separate cover secured through a professional body.
- Changes to the Fitness to Practise processes at the GDC, which began in 2011, have started to show significant results. Progress made so far includes an increase in the number of cases completed within 6 and 9 months from referral, and a reduction in the number of cases awaiting a final hearing.
- The GMC has welcomed plans by the Government to give them new powers to check language skills of doctors from Europe. The purpose is to prevent doctors from practising if they are unable to speak English to a standard that is considered to be safe.
25 February 2013
Health and Social Care Reform: an analysis of the responses.
The Structure of Reform and Accountability
On 20 February 2013, The Law Commission published an analysis of responses received to its Consultation Paper on the Regulation of Health and Social Care Professionals. In advance of the Government response, Sarah Harris and Julie Norris analyse the range of responses submitted.
22 February 2013
Case Update: Luthra v GMC [2013] EWCH 240 (Admin)
Practical effects of decision to erase 70 year old doctor unfair, but not wrong.
18 February 2013
Case Update: High Court refuses to stay civil proceedings pending extradition proceedings
In the case of Akciné Bendrové Bankas Snoras v Antonov and another [2013] EWHC 131 (Comm), the Commercial Court declined an application to vary a worldwide freezing injunction and stay civil proceedings generally, pending the outcome of connected extradition proceedings.
11 February 2013
Case Update: R. (on the application of Scholten) v General Medical Council [2013] EWHC 173 (Admin)
The High Court criticises the decision of the Interim Order Panel to order the 18 months suspension of a doctor found to have photographed a patient without her consent.