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Fitness of Doctors
to practice Medicine
The GMC is best known to the public for handling complaints and giving
information, which casts doubt on a doctor’s fitness to practice.
The GMC can take action when:
- A doctor has been convicted of a criminal offence
- There has been an allegation of serious professional misconduct
- A doctor’s professional performance may be seriously deficient
- A doctor with health problems continues to practice whilst unfit
- Where the problem concerns a doctor’s conduct, the GMC take any
action from issuing a warning to striking the doctor off the register
in serious cases.
- Where the problem is with a doctor’s professional performance,
the GMC can assess their practice thoroughly and decide what to
do to put right any deficiencies. The GMC will work with the doctor’s
co-operation to ensure that patients are protected.
- If the problem is the doctor’s health, the emphasis is on protecting
patients while the doctor is offered medical treatment. The doctor
will probably take time out of practice while medical treatment
is continuing.
Doctors can find out more about these procedures by looking at The
GMC website: www.gmc-uk.org
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Or contact them on:
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Tel:
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Fax
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Enquiries or complaints about a doctor’s fitness to practise
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020 7915 3603
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020 7915 3642
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Enquiries about GMC procedures
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020 7915 3580
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020 7915 3680
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Enquiries about GMC performance procedures
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020 7915 3667
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020 7915 3680
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Ethical Enquiries
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020 7915 3568
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020 7915 3599
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Enquiries about revalidation and regulation policy
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020 7915 3506
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020 7915 3648
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To obtain free copies of
Good Medical Practice and other booklets about the fitness
to practice procedures are available from:
GMC Fitness to Practice
Directorate
178 Great Portland Street
London
W1N 6JE
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Help-line:
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020 7915 3692
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General Enquiries:
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020 7915 3603
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Enquiries about sick doctors:
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020 7915 3580
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Fax:
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020 7915 3642
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Please phone these advice lines between 9am and 5pm Monday to Friday.
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