Last month the UK became the first country in the world to implement a scheme of regular fitness to practise reviews for its doctors. The new system of "revalidation” was brought into effect by the Department of Health and the General Medical Council following calls for a method of flagging up...
On 11th June 2012 the General Medical Council (GMC) launched the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) as the new adjudication service for fitness to practise hearings. Based in Manchester City Centre, the new service has been established following a government consultation which...
The MP for Pendle has made allegations regarding widespread electoral fraud in East Lancashire's Asian community in a debate in the House of Commons. Andrew Stephenson suggested that Asian women in his constituency had told him they had no idea who they had voted for because their husbands...
A recent report has suggested that the level of reported fraud cases in the North West has halved in the last twelve months, to £94 million. These figures indicate that the cost of fraud to the North West has fallen below that to the north east, Midlands and Scotland for the first time since...
A court clerk from London has been sentenced to 6 in prison for misconduct in public office and 3 years in prison for an offence of bribery. The sentences will run concurrently. The latter represents the first sentence handed down under the new Act and sends a clear message that this new...