High Court ruling highlights risks of facing fitness to practise hearings alone
High Court ruling warns that attending fitness to practise hearings without specialist legal support can lead to unfair outcomes.
2025 Fitness to Practise in Review: Key trends shaping UK regulation
Our 2025 fitness to practise review highlights key FtP issues, major regulatory trends and the strong outcomes we achieved for clients this year.
Pharmacist escapes erasure with representation from Kings Chambers
ArticleOur client, a pharmacist, IK, has avoided the most severe sanction of removal from the register after a professional conduct case concluded with only a short suspension. IK faced extremely serious allegations relating to both his personal and professional...
Client secures just outcome in complex GPhC fitness to practise case
Expert GPhC fitness to practise defence secures fair suspension, avoiding removal in complex pharmacist case.
Assessing insight when a registrant denies allegations in fitness to practise proceedings
How fitness to practise panels can assess genuine insight when a registrant denies allegations and offers no apology, balancing fairness with public protection.
Regulatory risks in remote and online sales of weight loss medicines
With increased regulatory action by the GPhC and others, we look at the issue of weight loss medicines and prescribing best practice.
The toll of prolonged fitness to practise investigations and the role of expert legal representation
Fitness to practise investigations help uphold UK care standards, but prolonged cases can cause serious personal and professional harm to healthcare professionals.
Understanding Accepted Outcomes in Fitness to Practise
Accepted outcomes create a paper-based route for resolving fitness to practise cases; examiners may impose measures if offers go unanswered.
Interim Orders in Professional Regulation
Interim orders are a crucial regulatory tool used early in fitness to practise investigations but with potentially significant impacts on healthcare professionals’ practice, careers, and personal well-being.
Does remediation matter in fitness to practise?
We look at the importance of remediation in fitness to practise, what remediation means and how it can impact on the outcome of an investigation or hearing.
New GPhC guidance for registered pharmacies providing pharmacy services at a distance
The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has published updated guidance for registered pharmacies providing pharmacy services at a distance.
GPhC reveals its plan to update the pharmacy inspections process
The GPhC has outlined plans to update and improve the way it inspects pharmacies due to commence in January 2025. What does this mean for you and your pharmacy?
How our services can drive regulatory improvement for pharmacists and pharmacies
Drawing on GPhC data, we look at what the main causes of poor performance in pharmacies are and how our services can drive regulatory improvement.
GPhC’s new guidance for pharmacies providing pharmacy services at a distance
The General Pharmaceutical Council is consulting on new guidance for registered pharmacies providing pharmacy services at a distance.
Pharmacist cleared of all charges
Our client was cleared of all charges brought against them by the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
Sexual Misconduct & Fitness to Practise
This type of behaviour is seen as particularly serious by regulators and, more often than not, result in the most severe sanctions.
“Wait and See” – Is it the right fitness to practise defence strategy?
When faced with a fitness to practise investigation, should health care professionals “wait and see” or does constructive engagement make a difference?
Good Clinical Governance in Pharmacies
Clinical governance is the system through which pharmacists are accountable for continuously improvement and safeguarding high standards of care.
Fitness to practise implications when a pharmacy is the subject of enforcement action
The GPhC considers it not to be in the public interest to allow the pharmacy professionals, who has potentially played a key role in the unsafe system, to continue in their practice without any restrictions.
Can GPhC enforcement action lead to fitness to practise sanctions?
The GPhC is taking enforcement action against online pharmacies and pharmacists for not adhering to its standards for registered pharmacies.
Pharmaceutical Professional’s Fitness to Practise not Impaired
M instructed Kings View Chambers to represent them in a case involving dishonesty in the workplace.
No impairment for online pharmacy owner
In one of the first substantive online pharmacy cases to reach a General Pharmaceutical Council hearing, our client’s fitness to practise was found not impaired.
Pharmacist’s fitness to practise found not impaired
The GPhC were determined to progress the matter against our client but, our work and a clear strategy achieved a finding of no impairment at the hearing.