Nineteen healthcare organisations urge government to strip GMC of its power to appeal

A group of 19 prominent health organisations have written to the health secretary to urge the government to strip the General Medical Council (GMC) of its power to appeal “fitness to practise” decisions made by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service.The letter—organised by the Medical Protection Society and signed by the BMA, royal medical colleges, and the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin—asked the government to deliver on its 2018 commitment to remove section 40A of the Medical Act 1983, thus removing the GMC’s right to appeal.The commitment followed the Williams review into gross negligence manslaughter in healthcare,1 prompted by the Bawa-Garba case,2 which called for this action as part of a recommendation to tackle mistrust of the GMC.Last year the government said that it would progress legislation to remove the GMC’s power to appeal in 2023, but this has not yet happened and no clear timeline has been set.Jane…
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