On 24th March, the Government published intended reforms to the doctors’ regulator, the General Medical Council (GMC). We believe the proposals fail to deliver necessary changes to a system of regulation that is failing doctors and their patients. Instead, we urge the Government to fix the system.

Specifically, reform should ensure that the GMC: legally protects the working titles of doctors, becomes a single-profession regulator for doctors only, has a legal duty of care to the doctors it investigates, applies the criminal standard of proof, cannot appeal medical tribunal determinations, is subject to investigation when complaints are made against it, and returns to a governing body with a majority of members elected by doctors.