GMC & Professional Discipline

We have experience of acting for healthcare organisations such as NHS Trusts, independent healthcare providers, healthcare practitioners, regulatory bodies such as the Care Quality Commission, the General Medical Council and the Nursing and Midwifery Council.   

Kings Chambers has particular expertise in the following areas:

• Regulatory Prosecutions;
• Challenges to Statutory Notices;
• Judicial Review Proceedings;
• Registration and Licensing Procedures; and
• Professional Disciplinary Proceedings.
• Compliance with Care Standards;
• Health and Safety;
• Professional Performance; and
• Professional Conduct including the GMC.

Members have acted for and against practitioners at the GMC and at other professional regulatory panel hearings. We have practitioners who  are past and present Legal Assessors for the GMC. Now that many GMC cases are heard in Manchester, Kings Chambers is ideally placed to provide the expertise and resources necessary for representation there.

Members of the team have considerable experience in advising healthcare regulators - including the CQC (and its various predecessors)- concerning the regulation of care homes, nursing homes, private hospitals, children’s homes, domiciliary care agencies and the registration of persons practising in those areas.  The team contains considerable experience in appearing before the Care Standards Tribunal (now part of the First-tier Tribunal, (Health, Education and Social Care Chamber) representing the regulator, service providers and individuals. In particular, our areas of expertise include:

• Refusals of registration
• Emergency cancellations
• Appeals against cancellations
• Advice on regulatory compliance and negotiating between registered parties and the regulator
• Advice on issues concerning confidential information and the sharing of that information
• Advice on whistle-blowing and the issues that arise as a result
• The human rights of residents of care homes.

To view a list of our members who specialise in this area, please click on the drop down menu to the left.