For a successful return to work during COVID-19, employers have a duty to carry out a risk assessment, implement safe systems of work and to keep these under review. Our risk assessment flowchart sets out the key issues for employers to consider.

Read the January 2020 edition of our newsletter, which reviews recent cases and examines key decisions from the last few months relevant to professional regulators.

Read the September 2019 edition of our newsletter, which reviews recent cases and examines key decisions from the last few months relevant to professional regulators.

The Hamilton review, commissioned by the General Medical Council, following a media storm when the GMC appealed the MPTS decision

Read the latest edition of our Regulatory Newsletter, which reviews recent cases and examines key decisions from the last few months.

The death of Jack Adcock at Leicester Royal Infirmary was a tragedy for all concerned; the devastating loss of a son for the Adcock family and a gruelling eight-year ordeal for Paediatric Registrar, Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba.

Read the latest edition of our Regulatory Newsletter, which reviews recent cases and examines key decisions from the last few months.

It is welcome news that the GMC has announced it will provide Human Factors training to all staff involved in fitness-to-practise decisions and investigations.

Please see our Summer 2018 newsletter

There are some cases where the facts are such that erasure of a doctor is the only proper and reasonable sanction. Dr Bawa-Garba’s case was not one of them.

The British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO) has won the right to be joined as an interested party in the Bawa-Garba Appeal, to be heard on 25 July 2018. This comes two months after the BMA also won the right to join the Appeal in May.

Dr Vaishnavy Laxman has been cleared of serious misconduct by a Medical Practitioners Tribunal (MPT) finding that her fitness to practise was not impaired when, in March 2014, she negligently performed a vaginal delivery.