GMC has been failing doctors and patients for 30 years

The General Medical Council has made dealing with criticism into a performative masterclass. It has honed several strategies: deny that there is a problem, cite the lack of evidence, commission research that often produces predictable answers to banal questions, and produce an endless series of reports so that it can wring its hands in false contrition and promise that change will come.Perceived racial biasThe GMC’s internal report into the case of Manjula Arora is damning.12 The only thing that the GMC will seize on is that the authors of the report could not find evidence of direct racial bias. But, tellingly, they did not exclude this possibility.Problems with racial bias in the way the GMC deals with cases were first raised by us nearly 30 years ago, in 1993.3 The GMC subsequently commissioned research by the Policy Studies Institute, which identified major flaws in the way that the GMC made…
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