Doctors call for GMC and MPTS leadership teams to be dismissed

Doctors have “no confidence” in the General Medical Council or Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) and have called for both organisations’ leadership teams to be dismissed.A motion passed at the BMA’s annual representative meeting in Liverpool on 4 July said that “too many MPTS fitness to practise decisions are disproportionate to the error of the doctors mistake.” It highlighted 29 deaths during GMC investigations in 2022, five of which were confirmed to be suicide.Both the regulator and tribunal service have come under fire from doctors and medical leaders in recent years, especially in relation to the cases of two ethnic minority doctors—Hadiza Bawa-Garba1 and Manjula Arora.2Writing in The BMJ last year, then BMA council chair Chaand Nagpaul called for an “independent, root and branch review and reform” of the GMC. He warned of “systemic flaws in the entire referral pathway” and “inherent bias against ethnic minority doctors.”3Doctors have now called…
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