Tom Kark QC and Jane Russell of Essex Court were invited to appear before the Health and Social Care Committee to discuss the Kark Review into the NHS’ fit and proper persons test. You can watch their testimony via the Parliament Live website, here.

Tom was appointed by the then Minister for Health, Stephen Barclay MP, to conduct a review of the effectiveness and operation of the fit and proper person test as it is applied within the NHS. He completed the review last year and delivered it to the Minister in November 2018. You can read the review in full, here.