Doctors call for GMC and MPTS leadership teams to be dismissed

Doctors have “no confidence” in the General Medical Council (GMC) or the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) and have called for both organisations’ leadership teams to be dismissed.

A motion passed at the BMA’s annual representative meeting in Liverpool on 4 July said that “too many MPTS fitness to practise decisions are disproportionate to the error of the doctors mistake.” It highlighted 29 deaths during GMC investigations from January 2018 to December 2020, five of which were confirmed to be suicide.

Both the regulator and tribunal service have come under fire from doctors and medical leaders in recent years, especially in …