Manjula Arora case: GMC announces co-chairs and scope of review

The review into the case of Manjula Arora—a GP who was given a one month suspension over her use of the word “promised” when requesting a work laptop—will be co-chaired by Iqbal Singh and Martin Forde QC, the General Medical Council (GMC) has announced.

Singh, a consultant geriatrician, is chair of the GMC’s Black and Minority Ethnic Doctors Forum, and Forde has regularly appeared in regulatory and disciplinary tribunals for doctors. Forde has also been appointed to carry out an independent investigation into the report on antisemitism in …