With increasing patient numbers and decreasing resources, healthcare professionals currently face unprecedented scrutiny.
Over the course of their career, it is an ever-present concern for many healthcare professionals that their, often well intentioned, actions will be called into question and they will be made the subject of a complaint or a fitness to practise investigation before their professional regulator. These can be career threatening and often have an enormous psychological and emotional impact on the healthcare professional during the process.
In some cases, healthcare professionals may also face employment or criminal investigations which run alongside the professional disciplinary proceedings. Each case is handled separately, which can mean multiple legal interventions, and being exonerated in one investigation is no guarantee of a positive outcome in the others. In such circumstances, a joined up approach between specialist legal advisers is critical.
In order to get onto, and remain, on a professional register, healthcare professionals need to keep up to date with the often complex requirements of professional regulation to ensure that they do not inadvertently transgress and put their careers and livelihoods at risk.
When faced with these difficult scenarios, you need a team of experienced legal advisers who will go the extra mile. We have been the law firm of choice for a number of healthcare professionals who have put their trust in us when it mattered most.
We have extensive expertise in professional disciplinary matters, including representation at fitness to practise hearings, Care Quality Commission appeals, inquests, investigations, performers lists proceedings and NHS England patient complaints. Our services to healthcare professionals also encompass criminal representation at magistrates' courts, registrations, buying a practice, employment advice and disputes.
Over the past 10 years, we have acted for and represented many pharmacists, dentists, doctors, paramedics as well as other healthcare professionals.
