by admin | Oct 7, 2025 | Insight, Remediation
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) has published updated guidance for tribunal panels that clarifies how insight and remediation should be assessed during doctors’ hearings. The new document, titled Tribunal Guidance for Doctors’ Hearings, introduces a...
by admin | Jul 14, 2025 | Insight, Remediation
New research has been published by the General Dental Council identifying key areas of best practice in remediation and highlights persistent barriers that may hinder its effective implementation. What is remediation? In the context of fitness to practise, remediation...
by admin | May 5, 2025 | Remediation
What is remediation? In the context of fitness to practise, remediation refers to the process by which a professional—often in a healthcare or related regulated field—takes deliberate, demonstrable steps to address concerns that have been raised about their conduct,...
by admin | Mar 25, 2025 | Insight, Remediation
In this case, our client, IB, was successful on their first attempt seeking restoration to the General Medical Council’s (GMC) register. Their application was opposed by the GMC. Kings View Chambers’ Joint Head of Chambers and fitness to practise defence...
by admin | Oct 28, 2024 | Insight, Remediation
This was a successful restoration case before the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC). Our client had been struck off and had been unsuccessful in a previous attempt at gaining restoration to the register. Speaking about this case, fitness to practise defence...
by admin | Oct 13, 2024 | Insight, Remediation
Sexual misconduct in doctors refers to any uninvited or unwelcome behaviour of a sexual nature that offends, embarrasses, harms, humiliates, or intimidates an individual or group. This can include inappropriate comments, touching, harassment, or more severe actions...
by admin | Jun 26, 2024 | Insight, Remediation
The way a doctor responds to a fitness to practice concern can influence the outcome of their investigation. The right response can lead to less severe sanctions or, in some cases, no sanctions being imposed. We look specifically at insight and remediation and how...
by admin | May 29, 2024 | Insight, Remediation
Where the GMC (or MPTS) deems there to be evidence of impaired fitness to practise, they will go on to assess whether the doctor poses a risk to public protection that requires action on the part of the GMC (or MPTS). A look at the criteria the GMC & MPTS decision...
by admin | Nov 28, 2023 | Remediation
Our client’s, R, registration with the General Dental Council fully restored in a case also pointing to the importance of full remediation. This case was a restoration case the dentist having been removed from the register for a failure to have indemnity insurance in...
by admin | Oct 4, 2023 | Insight, Remediation
Any criminal conviction will be viewed as proven in a fitness to practise case, and attempts at denial could be interpreted as lacking insight. An Overview of Criminal Convictions Fitness to Practise In fitness to practise proceedings, criminal...
