by admin | May 31, 2021 | Legal
Once the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) has decided that a fitness to practise complaint falls within its regulatory jurisdiction (triage), it will move to the initial investigation stage. At this point in the HCPC fitness to practise investigation...
by admin | May 24, 2021 | Case Study, Legal
Kings View Chambers represented a HCPC registered Occupational Therapist in a case involving a breach of professional boundaries and dishonesty. Speaking about the case, barrister Catherine Stock commented that: “This case demonstrated how easy it can be even for an...
by admin | May 16, 2021 | Legal
The duty of candour means healthcare professionals must be honest when something goes wrong and failure to do so can amount to misconduct. What is the duty of candour? All healthcare professionals have a duty of candour – a professional responsibility to be honest...
by admin | Apr 5, 2021 | Legal
The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) has launched a new corporate plan to fast-track improvements to core regulatory functions, in particular in fitness to practise. The HCPC’s new corporate plan comes in the wake of a damning performance report by the...
by admin | Mar 28, 2021 | Legal
An important consultation to overhaul fitness to practise has been launched by the Department of Health and Social Care. This week, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) launched what has been described as a “once in a lifetime” opportunity to overhaul...
by admin | Mar 14, 2021 | Case Study, Legal
HCPC Defence Barristers (part of Kings View Chambers) represented a paramedic facing Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) fitness to practise proceedings. JG, a paramedic, was facing very serious charges relating to drug misuse at work which could have had a...
by admin | Mar 14, 2021 | Legal
A self-referral is when you inform a regulator of a concern about your own conduct, competence or health that may impair your fitness to practise. Under certain circumstances, the requirement to self-refer might be clear but this is not always the case, for example in...
by admin | Mar 7, 2021 | Legal
Fitness to practise includes health – both physical and mental. With adverse health, what should be considered and when is a fitness to practise referral appropriate? Health in Fitness to Practise Health is an important consideration in fitness to practise. Health...
by admin | Mar 1, 2021 | Legal
Professional Standards Authority v Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and Leonard Ren-Yi Yong [2021] EWHC 52 (Admin) In the case of PSA v HCPC & Leonard Ren-Yi Yong, the High Court was asked to rule on whether inappropriate comments by Mr Yong were...
by admin | Feb 17, 2021 | Legal
Reflection and demonstrating insight are important in fitness to practise proceedings but what is the significance of these and what does insight look like in practice? When things go wrong Fitness to practise investigations and sanctions exist to protect the...
