Doctors' Serious Concerns Regarding the General Medical Council (UK) :

The vast majority of the U.K. doctors raise serious concerns regarding the structure, functioning, and impact of the General Medical Council (GMC) on the medical profession , doctors and healthcare services in the United Kingdom.

The GMC is entrusted with the statutory responsibility of regulating doctors in the UK, maintaining professional standards, and protecting patients. However, there is serious concern among vast majority of the medical community that aspects of its regulatory processes may be disproportionately punitive, discreminatory , opaque, and detrimental to both doctors and healthcare delivery.

1. Disproportionate and Punitive Regulatory Action

There is concern that the GMC’s use of suspension, interim orders, and erasure from the medical register are excessive and career-destroying. Suspension or erasure has profound personal, professional, financial, and psychological consequences for doctors. Such measures should be:

Truly proportionate

Based on clear, transparent evidence

Applied consistently and without bias

The perception among many practitioners is that the system can at times appear adversarial and damaging rather than mediated or rehabilitative.

2. Concerns Regarding Fairness and Equality

There have been longstanding concerns raised within the profession about differential outcomes affecting internationally trained doctors and doctors from ethnic minority backgrounds treated differently. Any regulator must ensure:

Complete equality before the law

Transparent investigation processes

Independent oversight

Clear safeguards against institutional bias

Where patterns of disproportionate impact are identified, structural reform and independent review should follow.

3. Impact on Healthcare Services

The United Kingdom faces unprecedented healthcare pressures, because of negligence of the medical regulator and the National Health Services trsulting extended waiting lists to 9 millions and workforce shortages due to poor governance. While regulation is essential for patient safety, rather than excessive or poorly calibrated disciplinary action risks:

Removing experienced & skilled doctors from practice which is detrimental to the patient's health and safety is :

Contributing to workforce attrition

Damaging morale across the profession

Discouraging recruitment and retention

A regulator must balance public protection with preservation of a functioning healthcare workforce rather threatening them.

Hundreds of good doctors have suicided because of cruel, disproportional , prolonged and unfair investigations by the MPTS.

4. Structural Concerns Regarding Investigatory and Tribunal Processes

Questions have been raised about the separation and independence of processes involving:

Fitness to Practise (FtP ) investigations Interim Orders Tribunals (IOT)

Medical Practitioners Tribunals Service (MPTS)

.All the above are heads of the same crocodile of the GMC with different names penalising and dragging doctors during investigations for years and years seriously damaging them professionally , psychologically and financially.

Many good doctors like Dr Muhammad Adil Consultant Surgeon, Dr Almas U Din Qazi, Dr David Cartland , Dr Sam White , Dr Sarah Myhill, Dr Jayne Donnovan, Dr Ann McCloskey, Dr Armstrong and many others have been victims of the GMC just on their freedom of speech to question Covid narrative and Vaccine Roll out based on political victimisation

Even where statutory separation exists, perceived lack of independence undermines confidence. Regulatory justice must not only be fair and transparent it must be clearly seen to be fair.

Consideration should be given to:

Strengthening judicial oversight

Enhancing procedural safeguards

Ensuring full parity of legal representation

Reviewing the balance of powers under the Medical Act 1983 which has gone too old and is used as hiding legal framework for unfair & biased practice of the GMC.

5. Need for Structural Reform and demolition of the current GMC structure :

Doctors across the UK increasingly call to the PM Keir Starmer and UK Parliament for:

Transparent governance reform

Greater representation and protection of practising clinicians

Clear accountability mechanisms

Independent external oversight

A regulatory model that prioritises remediation and professional development over punishment

The purpose of regulation should be to protect patients , public and doctors while supporting safe medical practice — not to create fear, defensiveness, or professional insecurity.

6. Proposed Principles for Reform

Any restructured regulatory framework should be:

GMC job should be to register a doctor after scrutinising the documents not power to penalise doctors

Independent and demonstrably impartial investigation by the High Court in case of complaint

Remove the power of the GMC to suspend or erase doctors from the register

Transparent in investigation and adjudication

Proportionate in sanctions

Free from political , big pharma or commercial influence

Focused on patient safety while preserving professional dignity

Doctors suspended and erased on political rivalry against their expert critical opinion on COVID & Vaccine be immediately reinstated.

Conclusion

Doctors are human too and are not adversaries of the public; they are in fact essential custodians of public health. A regulatory system that is perceived as punitive, biased , inconsistent, or structurally flawed risks undermining public trust in both the profession and the regulator itself because of wrong doing of the GMC.

Constructive reform — rather than confrontation it is necessary to restore confidence among doctors ensure that regulation serves patients, the public, and the medical profession fairly and effectively in healthy environment rather than under immense pressure of overwhelming GMC involvement which is damaging.

Voice of the UK doctors Alliance :

Signatories :

Global international Nishtarian Organisation

World Doctors Alliance ( WDA)

Doctors for patient

World Health Reforms

British Islamic Medical association ( BIMA)

U.K. Doctors

BAPIO ( British Association of Indian origin)

APMAUK( All Pakistan medical association of U.K.)

Dated: 22/02/2026