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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
24 October 2012
Case Update: Robinson v Solicitors Regulation Authority [2012] EWHC 2690 (Admin)
Tribunal’s decision to grant 12 month suspension upheld by Administrative Court.
24 October 2012
Regulatory Press Round-Up - October 2012
- HCPC launches consultation to obtain the views of stakeholders on new standards for prescribing medication and has produced new standards in line with the consultation.
- Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, announces that every doctor practising in the UK will be subject to regular checks to help improve the quality of patient care.
- GDC considers removal of current restrictions which prevent patients seeing another member of the dental team until after they have been referred by a dentist.
- It is now an offence to clamp, tow or immobilise a vehicle without lawful authority under the Protection of Freedoms Bill.
- The Bar Council aims to launch a new initiative offering emergency childcare packages for barristers in London, in a bid to help practising barristers manage their childcare arrangements.
23 October 2012
Case Update: Siddiqui v Health Professions Council [2012] EWHC 2863
High Court refuses to interfere with factual findings of first instance tribunal and dismisses appeal.
19 October 2012
General Medical Council sets timing for launch of re-validation
Blazing a trail as the first country to introduce such a scheme, Jeremy Hunt, the Secretary of State for Health, announced today that the new structure of revalidation for doctors in the United Kingdom would be live from December 2012.
19 October 2012
The much anticipated FA Code of Conduct: (not) unveiled…
Following on from last week’s blog post concerning the new FA Code of Conduct, Rowena Rix attempts to consider its content.