GMC failed as a regulator

摘要

Hadiza Bawa-Garba has won the rightto practise medicine again (This Week, 18-25 August). This is a landmark moment in patient safety-the GMC failed in its job as a regulator and confused the role of the criminal court with that of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal (MPT). The GMC should apologise to Jack Adcock's family and to Bawa-Garba for its actions. If successful, they would have put patient safety back by decades. Doctors would be less likely to be honest about their mistakes and seniordoctors like me would have been looking to retire early.