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Keeping the peace at Christmas – top tips for shared parenting over the festive season
Lauren Evans
15 April 2014
Case update: Nursing and Midwifery Council v Kidd and another [2014] EWHC 847
Court lays down marker for regulatory authorities who rely on High Court as part of enforcement regime and outlines best practice for notice of interim order extensions.
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...
12 March 2014
Regulatory Press Update: March 2014
The GMC has indicated that new language checks on European doctors are expected to come into force this summer. The current legislative position is that the GMC can assess overseas doctors applying to work in the UK, but not those from other countries within the European Union (EU). The changes will require doctors from other countries within the EU to provide evidence of their English skills, or undergo a language assessment, if the GMC has concerns about his or her ability to communicate effectively with patients.
