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Wednesday, 20 January 2021 17:00
Doctors and Domestic Violence
Posted by Doctors Defence Service
The GMC receives a number of complaints each year from spouses or ex-spouses, or their friends and relatives, that a doctor has been violent at home toward their ex-partner or children. Each year a number of doctors will be convicted of assault...
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Monday, 08 June 2020 20:30
GMC Defence – Representation
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Legal Representation and Legal Advice for Doctors in GMC cases....
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Thursday, 12 November 2020 13:16
NHS Counter-Fraud Interviews and Doctors
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The NHS investigates allegations of fraud in the NHS effected by its employees. Doctors might be investigated for fraud occurring in their workplace or in relation to moonlighting when they should be at work or in relation contracts that they may have...
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Wednesday, 07 October 2020 9:38
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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Monday, 17 August 2020 10:17
GMC Applications to the High Court to Extend Interim Orders
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Challenging a GMC Interim Order Extension Application The GMC may apply to the High Court of England or Wales, or Northern Ireland (or Court of Session in Scotland) for an extension to an interim order where the original order, or a previous...
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Sunday, 17 May 2020 13:22
How to Avoid GMC Warnings
Posted by Doctors Defence Service
The General Medical Council (GMC) can issue Warnings to doctors who are considered by the GMC’s Case Examiners to have acted in a manner inconsistent with Good Medical Practice – the code of conduct for doctors – where a referral to a fitness...
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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.
Contact us in strict confidence and without obligation to see how we might assist you. Call Doctors Defence Service on: 0800 10 88 739