The Regulation of Healthcare Professionals: Law, Principle and Process, 2nd Edition

JOANNA GLYNN, QC B.A. (LOND) Of the Middle Temple, Barrister

Joanna Glynn practises from 1 Crown Office Row, London. She was called to the Bar in 1983 and took silk in 2002. Since the early 1990s, she has appeared regularly before the fitness to practise committees and panels of the healthcare regulators and on appeal, conducting cases involving a wide range of alleged professional malpractice. She is regularly instructed by health care regulators as trial counsel, and to advise on generic legal and policy matters. She also acts for health care professionals and lawyers facing disciplinary proceedings brought by their regulators, and in criminal cases that turn on medical matters (in particular non-accidental head injury). For twelve years she was a contributing editor of Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice and she has sat in the Crown Court as a Recorder since 1997.

DAVID GOMEZ M.A. (Oxon) LL.M Of Lincoln’s Inn, Barrister (non-practising); Solicitor of the Senior Courts

David Gomez is a regulatory law specialist with extensive experience of health care regulation in practice including experience gained from his previous roles as General Counsel to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, and legal advisor to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
Whilst in private practice, David acted for most of the health care regulators which are the subject of this book: defending appeals and judicial reviews against the decisions made by their regulatory committees, and investigating numerous concerns about the fitness to practise of the professionals that they regulate. In addition to developing regulatory tools and policies as part of his senior in-house roles, David has practical experience of adjudication issues, having served as secretary to the Statutory (Fitness to Practise) Committee of the RPSGB, and been the draftsman to the Committee, chaired by Lord Carlile that developed the first case management protocol for the General Medical Council. 
David chaired the indicative sanctions session at the first CHRE conference in 2005, has participated in a review of mechanisms for legislative reform organised by the Department of Health and been a member of a short life working group on the development of rules for the Office of the Health Professions Adjudicator. David has also drafted statutory instruments, rules, regulations, fitness to practise and licensing procedures for many health and social care regulatory bodies and been involved with negotiating the contents of, and implementing, various “section 60 orders”. 
In April 2009, David provided evidence to the Bioethics Select Committee of the French National Assembly about the UK’s scheme for the regulation of assisted conception and research involving embryos.

Joanna Glynn, QC and David Gomez are the co-authors of Fitness to Practise: Health Care Regulatory Law, Principle and Process which was published by Sweet & Maxwell in 2005.