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Health and Social Care Bill

It is important to clarify this. It is perfectly true that for some years any doctor with a British qualification practising overseas in, for example, the United States or Canada who was subject to disciplinary sanctions in that country did not have the proceedings reported formally to the GMC. However, after one or two very notable cases that arose in Canada, that situation was changed and such proceedings were reported formally to the GMC, so that it became aware that the doctors in question had been disciplined in another country. I am uncertain whether that still applies; things may have changed in the past few years. However, I think that is the position.