BMJ  2006;333:987 (11 November), doi:10.1136/bmj.39028.547778.DB

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GMC denies that changes will mean more doctors being struck off

Clare Dyer, legal correspondent

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The General Medical Council denied this week that its plans to lower the standard of proof in disciplinary proceedings against doctors in the United Kingdom would see more practitioners struck off the medical register.

Graeme Catto, the GMC's president, said: "We don't anticipate that this will lead to an increase in the number of doctors being erased from the register."

Professor Catto was speaking at the launch of the GMC's proposals for far reaching reform of the system of medical regulation in the UK, made in response to recommendations from the chief medical officer for England, Liam Donaldson, in his consultation paper Good Doctors, Safer Patients.

The changes to the GMC will see the composition of its council move from a 40% lay minority to half lay and half medical membership, spelling the end of "professionally led" regulation.

Under Professor Donaldson's proposals, in cases against doctors the facts at issue . . . [Full text of this article]


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