GMC withheld fitness-to-practice information from employers
General Medical Council received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 20 Dec 2013 and 14 Aug 2014.
They came from 2 different coroners in 2 coroner areas. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
A published response was found for 1 of the 1 earlier reports, stating 1 specific action.
The story, report by report
Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“My view is that this statement casts doubt on 7 aa fitness to practice and this is of grave concern as my understanding is that he currently continues to practice as a GP within my Coroner Area.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ General Medical Council responded.Response (PDF) ↗
- 8 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.85 · higha different coroner
“Crucial information was held by the GMC about concerns about this doctor's fitness to practice, including his referral to NCAS. This information was not available to those enquiring about his fitness to practice at a subsequent time.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:fitnesspractice
General Medical Council responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“time. We also review both policy and practice in relation to employment checks on a regular basis and as changes to the national requirements are introduced.”
Stated timescale: January 2015
- All reports to General Medical Council
Each row is one judged link between an earlier and a later report. Open a row to read both quotes, found word for word in the originals.
2013 → 2014Thomas Warren8 months after Kate Louise Pierce · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.85 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.85 · highBoth reports highlight that the General Medical Council possessed important fitness‑to‑practice information about a doctor but did not make it available to those who needed to know. The earlier case concerns misleading parents and ongoing practice; the later case concerns missing information for recruitment agencies and trusts.
Kate Louise Pierce · 20 Dec 2013
“My view is that this statement casts doubt on 7 aa fitness to practice and this is of grave concern as my understanding is that he currently continues to practice as a GP within my Coroner Area.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Thomas Warren · 14 Aug 2014
“Crucial information was held by the GMC about concerns about this doctor's fitness to practice, including his referral to NCAS. This information was not available to those enquiring about his fitness to practice at a subsequent time.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
Stated action · timescale: January 2015
“time. We also review both policy and practice in relation to employment checks on a regular basis and as changes to the national requirements are introduced.”
- Each report's concerns were extracted by Nemotron 3 Nano on Nebius Token Factory, each with a quote copied from the report.
- Concerns from reports to General Medical Council at least six months apart were compared by meaning (Qwen3 embeddings) and wording (TF-IDF).
- The closest pairs were judged by Nemotron 3 Super with reasoning on. Only identical or closely related, with confidence of at least 0.70, are shown.
- Every quote was checked by code as an exact substring of the original text. Names of staff and family are redacted, and the deceased are named by report title only.
| Link | Meaning | Wording | Judge | Coroner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 → 2014 | 0.63 | 0.29 | Closely related · 0.85 | different |
Judge model: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b. How Nemotron did the work · Full methodology.
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