After the hearing, Mary O’Rourke QC, representing Carneiro, said no settlement had been reached and a date had been fixed for the next hearing.

The 42-year-old doctor was dropped from first-team duties after then-Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho criticised her.

Carneiro also has a separate personal legal action against former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho.

“She is very happy with the global support of the medical world in football.”

Former Chelsea team doctor Eva Carneiro’s lawyers have served notice on the club that she intends to seek a claim for constructive dismissal.

Chelsea club doctor Eva Carneiro is understood to have left her post a little over a month after she found herself at the centre of a storm of controversy having come on to the pitch to treat Eden Hazard late in the Blues’ opening day draw against Swansea.

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho could again face questions over his treatment of former club doctor Eva Carneiro after Football Association chairman Greg Dyke criticised the Portuguese’s handling of the incident.

Campaign group Women in Football says it is "appalled" by the Football Association's decision to take no action against Jose Mourinho.

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho will face no action after the Football Association cleared him of making discriminatory comments towards then club doctor Eva Carneiro.

PFA chief Gordon Taylor says players’ health should not be put at risk if team doctors feel any reluctance to go on the field in the wake of Eva Carneiro’s departure from Chelsea.

Football Association board member Heather Rabbatts expressed her “sadness and anger” at the news Carneiro had left Chelsea.

Chelsea team doctor Eva Carneiro is reported to have left the club.

"I think you will find FIFA on Friday saying their duty was to the player as their patient, the referee, the FA and actually their job in the club is to look after the players not to run the team."

Jose Mourinho’s exasperation at the intense questioning over his handling of doctor Eva Carneiro and physio Jon Fearn saw the Chelsea manager threaten to walk out of yesterday’s press conference.

Jose Mourinho will today answer the critics for the first time since the controversy over Chelsea doctor Eva Carneiro blew up.

"Doctors working for Premier League teams are bound by the same professional and ethical boundaries as any other doctor."