Doctors’ fitness to practise statistics and reports
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- Doctors' fitness to practise statistics and reports
- Doctors who have died while under investigation or during a period of monitoring
Please note: the information on this page relates solely to doctors and does not include any data on physician associates or anaesthesia associates. This will be added in the future.
Doctors’ fitness to practise annual statistics
Our annual fitness to practise statistics reports show the number of concerns we receive, where they come from and what happens to them at each stage of our processes. Each report covers a full calendar year from 1 January to 31 December.
As part of our work to track and tackle disproportionality and ensure fairness across our processes we report outcomes by protected characteristics. This includes reporting the number and percentage of decisions at each stage of our fitness to practise processes by gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion and disability.
It’s important to note that the data reflects decisions made at each stage of our processes and doesn't track a single group of doctors through the entire process. This means a doctor may appear in the data more than once if their case moves through the stages within the year, or if they have more than one case started.
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Compendium of GMC published findings relating to fitness to practise rates (2022)
Our data compendium is a summary of published GMC findings from 2011 to 2022 about how different factors relate to rates of fitness to practise complaints, investigations and outcomes for doctors. It summarises findings and signposts to the original publications for reference and further reading.
View the Compendium of GMC published findings relating to fitness to practise rates
