Your contributor’s letter on managing concerns in healthcare (The GMC’s damning silence on medical negligence cases, 15 June) paints an incomplete picture of how regulators work to protect patients and support doctors.
Where complex concerns involving doctors are raised, we work with other regulators, the employer and police to establish what action is appropriate, balancing patient safety with fairness to the clinicians involved. We will not hesitate to act if we identify patient safety issues involving individual doctors.
