Overseas-trained NHS doctors more likely to be struck off without lawyer at a disciplinary
by Denis Campbell Health policy editor from World news | The Guardian on (#5ZA21)
Nearly 40% of doctors who trained abroad do not have legal representation, compared to 25% of doctors who qualified in UK
Doctors from overseas working in the NHS are more likely to be suspended or struck off when they have no lawyer to represent them at a disciplinary hearing, new figures show.
The findings have raised fresh questions about whether the General Medical Council (GMC) displays systemic racial bias" in its treatment of foreign-born medics accused of wrongdoing.
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