A group of 19 prominent health organisations have written to the health secretary to urge the government to strip the General Medical Council (GMC) of its power to appeal “fitness to practise” decisions made by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service.
The letter—organised by the Medical Protection Society and signed by the BMA, royal medical colleges, and the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin—asked the government to deliver on its 2018 commitment to remove section …