GMC to review Manjula Arora case after backlash from doctors

The General Medical Council has said that it is reviewing the Manjula Arora case to see if there are “lessons to be learnt for future cases” after doctors and medical leaders expressed outrage over the decision to suspend the GP.1

Arora, who trained in India before moving to the UK in the early 1990s, has been suspended for a month after it was ruled that she exaggerated what she had been told by a senior doctor when making a request for a laptop. The hearing concluded that Arora had not set out to be dishonest or to mislead but that her use of the specific word “promised” when speaking to the IT department had amounted to dishonesty.

The case centred around incidents that took place in late 2019 and 2020 while Arora was working for Mastercall, which provided a clinical assessment service for the North West Ambulance Service. It …