HC Deb 30 November 2001 vol 375 c1189W
Miss McIntosh

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will take steps to introduce a ban from registration with the GMC of(a) GPs and (b) consultants who have been banned from practising in (i) EU, (ii) Commonwealth and (iii) other countries. [8979]

Mr. Hutton

We are discussing with the General Medical Council extending the matters that can be considered under its registration and its fitness to practise procedures to include disqualifying decisions by authorities abroad. There is already provision covering doctors from the European Economic Area.