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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
31 August 2017
More flexible regulation of solicitors: opportunity or threat?
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has published its long-awaited response to its consultation on the future framework of the regulation of solicitors: ‘Looking to the future: flexibility and public protection’
24 August 2017
#Brexit: Lords examine financial regulation and supervision
The House of Lords EU Financial Affairs sub-committee has launched an inquiry into the future of financial regulation and supervision following the UK’s departure from the EU.
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).
10 August 2017
Unfit for work, does not automatically equate to unfit to attend a hearing
Hayat v General Medical Council
[2017] EWHC 1899 (Admin)
9 August 2017
Understanding what is important to regulators: it's not just your clinical skills
Regulated professionals - doctors, nurses, accountants, social workers (amongst others) - should think twice before assuming that an allegation of misconduct stems only from poor clinical practice.
