Yesterday we attended the Westminster Health Forum 

The meeting was attended by all the main regulators including Charlie Massey from the GMC and Clare Strickland from the NMC

Rinesh Parmar  spoke about why the GMC needs to take responsibility for the training and reinstatement of doctors who are automatically struck off upon conviction but later have these overturned.

All the regulators are keen to automatically erase registrants when there are convicted of a serious crime but there seems to be no process to deal with them if their conviction is then overturned.

Amanda Jenkinson, RN took 10 years following her criminal conviction to be overturned to be reinstated by the NMC

Supporting registrants to return or remain on the register needs to have as much resource assigned to it as it does sanctioning and removing