Further written evidence to be reported to the House
Health and Social Care Bill
5:30 pm
Angela Browning (Deputy Chairman, The Conservative Party; Tiverton and Honiton, Conservative)
I do not know whether I am in order here, but would it be helpful if the BMA or the GMC provided the Committee with recent statistics about the nature of the inquiries that doctors have been subjected to in disciplinary matters? I am beginning to find this a rather bizarre conversation. I would be interested to know how many patients have taken action against doctors for things such as over-exposure to scans. The Committee needs to consider the classifications of complaints against doctors and the outcomes of those different classifications. Before we consider the Bill line by line, I as a Committee member would find that information very helpful, wherever it comes from, so that we can focus on what, in the main, doctors are being asked to account for and the outcome of disciplinary action against them for those types of complaint.