Overseas-trained NHS doctors more likely to be struck off without lawyer at disciplinary

Overseas-trained NHS doctors more likely to be struck off without lawyer at disciplinary Nearly 40% of doctors who trained abroad do not have legal representation, compared with 25% of doctors who qualified in UK.

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. The Guardian

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• Doctors who graduated overseas face harsher sanctions when unrepresented at medical tribunals Medical Protection Society