Wes Streeting said ‘no doctor with serious misconduct findings should be able to slip through the cracks’Health Secretary Wes Streeting has ordered an urgent review of vetting procedures for foreign-qualified doctors after 22 medics banned from practising overseas were cleared to treat NHS patients. Cases include doctors suspended abroad over their care of patients and one medic who lost his medical licence overseas for having sex with a patient. In other cases, the GMC was aware of an overseas sanction but still decided the person could work in the UK. Of these, 25 doctors do not currently have a licence to practise in the UK, though they may have worked in the UK previously. “We also always actively seek information from overseas regulators when doctors who have been working in other countries apply to register with us.