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Health Professions: Regulation

Asked by Daisy CooperLiberal DemocratDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 9 March 2026UIN 116080

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 4 December 2025 to Question 95904 on Health Professions: Regulation, if he will publish a consultation on secondary legislation to modernise the General Medical Council’s regulatory framework which would enable them to consider fitness to practise concerns arising from allegations of sexual misconduct that are more than five years old during this parliamentary session.

Answered by Karin Smyth

The Government is committed to modernising the regulatory frameworks for all healthcare professionals in the United Kingdom.

As a first step, we aim to consult on secondary legislation to modernise the General Medical Council’s (GMC) regulatory framework shortly with a view to laying this legislation before Parliament this year.

As part of the consultation, we will be consulting on a reformed fitness to practise process for the GMC.

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