The Manchester Local Medical Committee, which represents GPs in Manchester has called for the General Medical Council (GMC) to be abolished, saying that patients and doctors have lost confidence in it.
Earlier this year Dame Janet Smith published the Shipman Inquiry's Fifth report, in which she laid down the foundations for a complete overhaul of the GMC. This preceded the chief medical officer's review of patient safety, which is currently being carried out.
In a regional newspaper report, the secretary of the West Pennine Local Medical Committee said: "The GMC is not able to give confidence to patients who think it is a doctors' body protecting its own interests".
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