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.

Sometimes a decision gets me thinking about my cases from a different perspective (in this case, from the Respondent's perspective). This is one of them, so I thought I'd share what my take home pointers were.

The British Medical Association (BMA) is calling for the General Medical Council (GMC) to lose its right (since 2015) to appeal decisions reached by its own fitness to practise hearings before a Medical Practitioners Tribunal (MPT).

The NMC receives over 5,000 FtP referrals a year so an overhaul of the system that deals with these cases is a pretty big deal.

Pressure from the medical community rallying behind Dr Bawa-Garba, who was struck off following the GMC's appeal of the MPT decision to suspend her for 12 months, may have swayed the Court of Appeal.

In handing down Judgment yesterday in the Wingate and Evans and Malins appeals, Lord Justice Rupert Jackson confirmed that integrity and dishonesty are separate concepts, lending support to regulators, such as the SRA

Potentially changed the long standing Ghosh test on dishonesty by removing the subjective element