GMC set to lose power to appeal decisions by medical practitioners tribunals

Legislation to strip the General Medical Council of its power to appeal decisions by medical practitioners tribunals is set to be introduced in 2023.The Department of Health and Social Care has confirmed that it will prioritise the long awaited move, although wide ranging reform of the regulatory regime for doctors will not be implemented until 2024 at the earliest. The department plans to end the GMC’s right of appeal in the second half of 2023, along with legislation for the regulation of physician associates and anaesthesia associates.The government accepted the recommendation in the 2018 Williams review1 that the GMC should lose the right to appeal tribunal decisions. The review followed doctors’ outrage over the case of Hadiza Bawa Garba, a trainee who was convicted of gross negligence manslaughter but suspended rather than erased from the medical register by a tribunal which took account of the context in which she worked….
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