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Expanded AML remit for the FCA: a good or bad thing?
Colette Best
7 December 2017
Press Round-Up: Regulatory and Professional Discipline October - November 2017
Recent news relating to the General Dental Council (GDC), General Medical Council (GMC), General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA).
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
5 September 2017
SRA Warning on Offensive Communications
On 24th August the SRA issued a warning to the profession about offensive communications.
4 September 2017
Doctors beware – your obligations to maintain adequate cover are not to be taken lightly
Irvine v General Medical Council
[2017] EWCA Civ 1296
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).
