Why are we so soft on dodgy doctors? There are thousands of complaints about them in a single year - yet just ELEVEN are struck off

Daily Mail Tuesday 7th February, 2012

Last year, the Parliamentary Health Select Committee described the GMC in a highly critical report as ‘overly lenient’ to doctors — while just a few months ago, the chair of the Patients’ Association, Dr Mike Smith, accused the organisation of ‘clearly under-investigating complaints submitted by patients’.

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