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Sunday, 26 June 2022 17:18
End of Life Care: Best Practice Decision-Making for Doctors
Posted by Doctors Defence Service
Doctors often have to make decisions about the care patients who are unwell and likely to die in the near future. The GMC has published written guidelines for doctors who have to make decisions about end of life care and the withdrawal of treatment. The guidelines should...
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Sunday, 26 June 2022 10:00
Doctors’ Personal Disclosure of Convictions to GMC is Mandatory
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Police Cautions and Convictions – Disclosure to the GMC – The General Medical Council (GMC), the body that registers and regulates UK doctors, requires all doctors (with full or provisional registrations) to disclose convictions, cautions, and other similar State imposed sanctions to...
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Sunday, 26 June 2022 9:45
‘Sexually Inappropriate’ Doctors
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The maintenance of professional boundaries is an important part of daily professional life for any medical doctor. Both patients and colleagues need to be able to trust the doctors that they come into contact with. They should not be in fear of...
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Friday, 27 May 2022 8:00
Doctors and Child Pornography
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Doctors, Child Pornography, and the GMC: A summary of the way the GMC deals with doctors who have downloaded or made indecent images of children....
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Tuesday, 10 May 2022 22:11
Defending Yourself Before the GMC and MPTS
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Doctors Defence Service provides legal representation and legal advice in GMC and MPTS proceedings in the UK....
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Tuesday, 10 May 2022 9:56
Double Jeopardy? GMC ‘Prosecutes’ Doctors Acquitted of Crimes
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Can a doctor be tried twice for the same allegation? Can the GMC Prosecute a Case where the Police have chosen not to prosecute? At Doctors Defence Service, we are frequently asked: Can a doctor be tried twice for the same allegation?...
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Saturday, 20 February 2021 1:10
Clinical Negligence Legal Defence Services for UK Doctors
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Clinical Negligence Defence Lawyers for UK Registered Medical Practitioners at Doctors Defence Service: We represent doctors who are being sued in negligence for an act or omission that may have caused death or a clinical injury. Doctors at some point in their...
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Friday, 10 July 2020 10:00
Clinical Negligence Case Law for Medical Practitioners
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Doctors Defence Service summarises and digests the latest clinical negligence case law for doctors in clinical practice in the UK. Each year aspects of the law of clinical negligence are clarified by various court judgments that identify the duties of doctors in...
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Legal Services for Medical Doctors
Doctors Defence Service provides comprehensive legal services to doctors in the UK and those doctors working overseas who are registered with the GMC or who seek to become registered in the UK.
Our lawyers represent doctors before the GMC and MPTS including interim orders, fitness to practise hearings, Registration Law, in Performance List hearings, Clinical Negligence cases, Partnership Disputes, Inquests, CQC and CiW matters, Employment Law claims, criminal and civil law cases, and other regulatory processes.
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