Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 89535

Doctors: Overseas Workers

Tabled: 11 November 2025
Answered: 24 November 2025

Question

Dr Caroline Johnson

ConservativeSleaford and North Hykeham

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that Doctors who have had their license to practice removed overseas are unable to practice in the UK.

Answer

Karin Smyth
The General Medical Council (GMC) is the independent regulator of all medical doctors, physician assistants, and physician assistants in anaesthesia, still legally known as anaesthesia associates and physician associates, practising in the United Kingdom....

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