Health Professions: Conduct
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of Practitioner Performance Advice cases involving (a) behaviour, (b) misconduct and (c) other (i) clinical and (ii) health concerns have involved practitioners who qualified (A) in the UK, (B) outside the UK in the EEA and (C) outside the EEA in each of the last two years.
Answered by Preet Kaur Gill
NHS Resolution has provided data relating to practitioners who are the subject of NHS Resolution’s Practitioner Performance Advice service (‘Advice’) cases. The number of cases in the tables below refers to the number of new cases opened in each of the financial years.
While the question relates to the last two years, NHS Resolution has also included data for 2023/24 to provide context and to align with a corresponding response issued under the Freedom of Information Act.
The following table shows the total number of cases relating to individual practitioners in each of the last three years along with a breakdown of the type of concern:
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| Concern type | ||
Year | Total number of cases | Behaviour/ misconduct | Clinical | Health |
2023/24 | 904 | 680 (75%) | 266 (29%) | 155 (17%) |
2024/25 | 1,255 | 980 (78%) | 347 (28%) | 190 (15%) |
2025/26 | 1,225 | 897 (73%) | 360 (29%) | 164 (13%) |
By way of background, Advice does not distinguish or prioritise a ‘main’ concern about a practitioner. When a case is opened, Advice may record multiple concerns, which is why the counts of concern type amount to a higher figure than the total number of cases, and the percentage totals exceed 100%. Concern types may be updated over the duration of the case.
In addition, the following table shows the total number of cases relating to individual practitioners in the last three years, broken down by primary medical qualification location:
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| Place of qualification | |||
Year | Total number of cases | United Kingdom | European Economic Area | Elsewhere | Unknown |
2023/24 | 904 | 408 (45%) | 85 (9%) | 398 (44%) | 13 (1%) |
2024/25 | 1,255 | 543 (43%) | 139 (11%) | 564 (45%) | 9 (1%) |
2025/26 | 1,225 | 526 (43%) | 131 (11%) | 543 (44%) | 25 (2%) |
NHS Resolution’s recent Insight publication may be of interest, and is available at the following link:
This publication sets out their annual analysis of the patterns of concerns reported to them by healthcare organisations, as well as the demographics of the practitioners who are the subject of our cases.
The insight presents the data in a different format for the purposes of publication. Please note that all professional groups, including doctors, dentists, and pharmacists, are included across all the jurisdictions in which we operate, namely England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Guernsey, Jersey, and the Isle of Man.
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