Health and Care Professions Council

Members of our healthcare disciplinary team are instructed by defence solicitors and insures / indemnity providers to advise and appear at the Health and Care Professions Council Tribunal (HCPCT). This has included assisting solicitors in the drafting of responses, appearances before the Investigating Panel in interim order applications, final hearings before the Conduct and Competence Committee, and appeals in the High Court.

Recent matters have included;

-Successful resistance of an interim order being imposed in a case where a Paramedic had been arrested, and then NFA’d by Police, on suspected grooming offences.

-Successful resistance of an interim order being imposed in a case where a Paramedic made the decision to have a patient transported in a private car instead of an ambulance after an accident at a sporting event. After a four-day hearing, a Paramedic was successfully exonerated of all allegations in respect of inappropriate language and conduct displayed to two female care workers at a care home from which a patient was being collected.

-A practitioner Psychologist facing allegations of breaching professional boundaries successfully avoided an interim order being imposed. Successful termination of proceedings, upon service of a skeleton argument setting out an abuse of process of the Tribunal, against a Chiropodist who was alleged to have misdiagnosed a malignant area on a patient’s foot.

In appropriate cases members of the team can be instructed directly.

Many members of the team also practice in the field of criminal regulatory law. As a result the team is able to provide expert advice and appear at inquests and criminal proceedings involving allegations against healthcare professionals.