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Health Professions: Complaints

Volume 503: debated on Wednesday 6 January 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether his Department holds information on complaints made to the General Medical Council against medical practitioners. (307347)

The Department does not hold information on complaints made to the General Medical Council (which is an independent regulatory body) against medical practitioners. Information relating to the GMC’s fitness to practice function is available from the GMC, a summary of which is published in their annual report, which is available on their website at:

http://www.gmc-uk.org/search.asp?client=gmc_frontend&site =gmc_collection&output=xml_no_dtd&proxystylesheet=gmc_ frontend&ie=UTF-8&q=annual%2Breport%2B2008& partialfields=&btnG=Google+Search&num=10&getfields= description&start=0&-as_sitesearch=http://www.gmc-uk.org/concerns&filter=0&txtKeywords=annual%Breport%2B2008&cbo Section=&cboUserType=

or by writing to them at GMC, Regent’s Place, 350 Euston Road, London NW1 3JN.