by admin | Sep 5, 2021 | Case Study, Legal
KD’s registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) was refused. KD approached Kings View seeking advice on appeal. Kings View fitness to practise defence barrister, Catherine Stock, commenting on KD’s case, said: “The focus of our advice was...
by admin | Sep 5, 2021 | Legal
On 4 March 2021, the HCPC was granted an amendment by the Department of Health and Social Care to existing Rules which gave it the express provision to hold hearings remotely during an emergency. Currently, the Coronavirus emergency provisions are due to...
by admin | Aug 15, 2021 | Legal
Healthcare regulators take a particularly serious view of breaching professional boundaries. What are personal boundaries and how to avoid the pitfalls. What are personal boundaries? The nature of the patient/carer relationship is such that healthcare professionals...
by admin | Jul 31, 2021 | Legal
The Health and Care Professions Council’s (HCPC) has significantly fallen short of standards of good fitness to practise standards according to the PSA. The outcome of the HCPC’s annual review by the Professional Standards Authority reveals that HCPC has only met one...
by admin | Jul 3, 2021 | Legal
On 1 July 2021 HCPC increased the threshold level of qualification to degree level for Operating Department Practitioners (ODP). The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) said a consultation earlier this year showed support for the increase and aligned with...
by admin | Jun 27, 2021 | Legal
When you receive correspondence from your regulatory body to tell you that a complaint has been received which will formally be investigated as part of its fitness to practise process, the temptation can often be to panic which can lead to rash actions and decisions. ...
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...
