GMC appeals decision not to strike off doctor convicted of manslaughter

The General Medical Council is appealing against the decision by a medical practitioners tribunal to suspend for 12 months a doctor who was convicted of gross negligence manslaughter. The GMC argues that Hadiza Bawa-Garba should have been struck off the UK medical register.

Bawa-Garba, who worked as a senior specialist registrar in paediatrics for University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, was convicted along with a nurse, Isabel Amaro, after the death of …