The GMC Chief Executive, Niall Dickson, said: “Cases of doctors convicted of sexual assault or child pornography offences are very rare and in the vast majority of these cases these doctors are struck off the medical register so they cannot practise medicine in the UK.” However, a spokesman for the Council said the decision on whether to strike off a doctor was taken by an independent panel of experts. Individual hospitals, however, can impose their own sanctions on doctors. An investigation found that of the 31 licensed doctors with convictions for sex offences, four have records of sexual assaults, four have been convicted of child pornography offences, two committed voyeurism or exposure offences and 21 solicited prostitutes or were caught kerb-crawling.
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