The NMC makes work for idle hands

Some notes on my travails in the regulatory and employment world.

What have I been doing?

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Different focus

5 day hearing at the HPCPC. I was marshalling arguments for what was a fairly rare point, an application to have a fitness to practice hearing, where the allegations were based on conduct, moved to be heard instead by the Health Committee. Moving the hearing would mean that the allegations would be heard in a much softer setting, with no chance of strike off in the worst case.

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One in, one out

Yesterday I took on a new client, a nurse accused of dishonestly working in second employment whilst on sick leave from the first. This type of case is common and I have at least three of these at the moment.

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To be struck off...

It had to happen. Four years after my very first regulatory case, one of my clients has been struck off. The only other time this has happened was in that very first case. It sucks. If it sucks for me, I can only imagine how devastated my client and their family must be feeling.

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