Medical watchdog chief faces calls to step down over Bawa-Garba case

Anger at GMC over treatment of paediatrician struck off after death of six-year-old boy

Hospital doctors are calling for the head of Britain’s medical regulator to stand down over his handling of the case of a paediatrician who was struck off following the death of a six-year-old boy.

Anger at the General Medical Council (GMC) has been building around the case of Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba, a junior doctor who this month won her bid to be reinstated to the medical register after she was earlier convicted of manslaughter by gross negligence over the death of Jack Adcock.

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