Katherine Whittingham
Katherine.Whittingham@kennedyslaw.com
+44 161 819 2622
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Katherine is an associate in Kennedys’ Manchester office, specialising in healthcare regulatory defence, on behalf of healthcare professionals and providers.
Katherine routinely represents healthcare professionals before their regulatory body, including the general Medical Council, General Dental Council, Nursing and Midwifery Council and Health Care Professions Council. She has several years experience in dealing with substantive investigations and hearings, alongside Interim Orders Applications and Review hearings. Alongside this, Katherine provides early support to professionals, where local investigations have commenced, prior to a regulatory referral being made.
In addition, Katherine assists healthcare professionals and private healthcare providers in Inquest proceedings. Katherine also has an interest in entity regulation and assists providers with written representations to the Care Quality Commission, including to challenge Warning Notices or other types of enforcement action being proposed.
Before focusing on healthcare regulation, Katherine gained broad experience supporting and defending employers liability, public liability and human rights claims across various sectors.
Katherine is a member of the Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers.
Qualifications:
- Qualified in England and Wales in 2020
Market recognition
- Recommended Lawyer - Legal 500, 2026
"Katherine Whittingham is an associate and is excellent. She too shows attention to detail and is determined to give every client a Rolls-Royce service"
"excellent lawyers, including...Katherine Whittingham".
Work highlights
- Persuaded the GMC’s Case Examiners to close a case with no further action against a Doctor, where the concerns related to alleged harrassment, offensive language and inappropriate behaviour.
- Successfully convinced the HCPC to take no further action against a practitioner Psychologist, following serious allegations relating to a failure to act in the best interests of a client.
- Supported a healthcare provider in a Jury Inquest, following a death caused by a rare strain of bacterial infection, which turned septic. Queries were raised over whether earlier opportunities to diagnose this infection had been missed. After detailed directions to the Jury, they returned a short form conclusion of ’natural causes’. No Regulation 28 matters were raised.
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