HC Deb 20 April 1978 vol 948 cc838-9
Mr. Moyle

I beg to move Amendment No. 9, in page 7, line 5, after 'above', insert—

  1. '(a) shall secure that a person who sits as a member of the Preliminary Proceedings Committee in the preliminary proceedings on any case shall not sit as a member of the Professional Conduct Committee or the Health Committee in any subsequent proceedings on that case; and
  2. (b)'.
The amendment is designed to carry out a course of action which was urged upon us in Committee, that any member of the General Medical Council who served upon the preliminary proceedings committee which decided the fate of a particular case would not thereafter sit on the professional conduct committee, because there was a danger that he might be thought to be prejudiced in any decision he helped to reach on the professional conduct committee by using the information he might have obtained by sitting on the preliminary proceedings committee.

I hope that the House will agree to this amendment.

Dr. Vaughan

The amendment follows very closely the request which we put to the Minister. I think that it is rather better worded than our amendment in Committee, and we welcome it.

Amendment agreed to.

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