Blog
From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
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.
7 August 2017
GMC exercises its appeal power for the second time
General Medical Council v Theodoropoulos
[2017] EWHC 1984 (Admin)
On 31 July 2017, the High Court handed down its judgment in an appeal by the General Medical Council (the GMC) against a decision made by a Panel of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) to suspend Dr Theodoropoulos’ registration for a period of 12 months.
2 August 2017
How long is too long to be subject to Conditions of Practice?
Patricia Annon and The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
[2017] EWHC 1879 (Admin)
17 July 2017
Fewer ambulance 999 calls to be classed as “life-threatening”
NHS England has announced a new set of performance targets for the ambulance services.
Although the proposals are wide-ranging and affect a number of targets and measures, headlines have focused on the changes to the definition of “life-threatening”, i.e. those cases which require an emergency vehicle to arrive within 8 minutes.