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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Jane Kirby

Wes Streeting orders urgent review into banned doctors found working in UK

Wes Streeting said ‘no doctor with serious misconduct findings should be able to slip through the cracks’ (Peter Byrne/PA) - (PA Wire)

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has ordered an urgent review of vetting procedures for foreign-qualified doctors after 22 medics banned from practising overseas were cleared to treat NHS patients.

Mr Streeting said the findings of an investigation by The Times were “horrific” and “a serious failure in our medical regulatory systems that I will not tolerate”.

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