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In June 2012 the MPTS assumed responsibility for medical tribunals, with their panels given the power to remove or suspend a doctor's ability to work within the UK. [7] It was expected that the service would handle some 340 doctors' fitness-to-practise hearings a year. [8]
In medical law and medical licensing, fitness to practise is a concept in the regulation of medicine regarding whether a health professional or social worker should be allowed to work. While fitness to practice can include matters of technical competence, including qualifications the concept also contains questions about the implications of the ...
The GMC has powers to issue advice or warnings to doctors, accept undertakings from them, or refer them to a fitness-to-practise panel. The GMC's fitness-to-practise panels can accept undertakings from a doctor, issue warnings, impose conditions on a doctor's practice, suspend a doctor, or remove them from the medical register (when they are ...
Medical practitioners tribunals, organised by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service, make decision about the fitness to practice of doctors. The MPTS was set up in 2012 to separate the adjudication function of the General Medical Council from its investigatory function. [24]
The General Medical Council's power, under the enabling Medical Act 1983, to make regulations with respect to the medical register can only come into force when approved by order of the Privy Council. Orders of Council are orders that do not require personal approval by the sovereign, but which can be made by the Lords of the Privy Council ...
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In June 2006 the GMC confirmed that they would hold a disciplinary hearing of Wakefield. The GMC's Fitness to Practise Panel first met on 16 July 2007 [62] to consider the cases of Wakefield, Professor John Angus Walker-Smith, and Professor Simon Harry Murch. [63] All faced charges of serious professional misconduct.
President-elect Donald Trump's transition team will arrive at the Pentagon on Monday, a Pentagon spokesperson said, after a delay in signing an agreement after the Nov. 5 election to formally ...