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Health Professions: Dismissal

Commons · Question 18356 · Tabled 6 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 16 Dec 2024

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Asked by Mark Pritchard

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of (a) doctors, (b) nurses and (c) other medical professionals were struck off from practicing in the NHS in 2022-23; and if he will publish the country of origin of th

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 16 Dec 2024

The Department does not hold the requested information centrally. All groups of healthcare professionals have their own regulatory bodies, for example, the General Medical Council is the regulator of all medical doctors practising in the United Kingdom, a...