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The GMC only registers doctors who are properly qualified and fit to practise and takes action when a doctor’s fitness to practise is in doubt.
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) hears cases against doctors where serious concerns have been raised, and as a result, their fitness to practise has been called into question by the GMC. In the most serious of cases, a doctor can be erased or suspended from the medical register.
DJS Research, an independent market research agency, was commissioned by the GMC to carry out an analysis of cases to help illuminate why a doctor may be suspended or erased from the medical register.
The research will help to inform a chapter exploring professional standards and the relationship with fitness to practise in the GMC publication, The state of medical education and practice in the UK (SoMEP), 2015 report.
The overarching objective of the research was to analyse the cases resulting in doctors being suspended or erased from the medical register to illuminate why a doctor may be suspended or erased from the medical register, beyond what is evident from numerical data held by the GMC.
The specific objectives were to:
