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Table 2 A breakdown of the number (and percentages) of Fitness to Practise referrals and eventual censures by allegation category, for both international medical Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board (PLAB) graduates and UK qualifying doctors

From: Predicting fitness to practise events in international medical graduates who registered as UK doctors via the Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board (PLAB) system: a national cohort study

International Medical Graduates registering via the PLAB

UK Medical Graduates

Allegation category

No. of allegations (% of allegations) n = 1607a

Relating to no. of doctors (% of doctors) n = 1182

No of doctors censured (% of doctors with allegations censured in that category) n = 215b

No. of allegations (% of allegations) n = 2821

Relating to no. of doctors (% of doctors) n = 2136

No. of doctors censured (% of doctors with allegations censured in that category) n = 342a

Closed at triage

458 (28.5)

439 (37)

NA

850 (30.1)

812 (38.1)

NA

Clinical care

368 (22.9)

360 (30.5)

43 (11.9)

681 (24.1)

663 (31.1)

41 (6.2)

Compliance

13 (0.8)

13 (1.1)

9 (69.2)

6 (0.2)

6 (0.3)

3 (50.0)

Health

56 (3.5)

55 (4.7)

33 (60.0)

191 (6.8)

185 (8.7)

113 (61.1)

Breaches of GMPc

46 (2.9)

46 (3.9)

18 (39.1)

40 (1.4)

37 (1.73)

8 (21.6)

Probity

418 (25.9)

389 (32.9)

162 (41.6)

625 (22.2)

593 (27.8)

271 (45.7)

Relationship with patient

147 (9.1)

145 (12.3)

14 (9.7)

319 (11.3)

307 (14.4)

16 (5.2)

Teaching and supervision

3 (0.2)

3 (0.3)

2 (66.7)

9 (0.3)

9 (0.4)

3 (33.3)

Relationship with colleagues

89 (5.5)

89 (7.5)

32 (36.0)

100 (3.5)

97 (4.5)

23 (23.7)

Other

10 (0.6)

10 (0.8)

0 (0)

3 (0.1)

3 (0.1)

0 (0)

  1. aMany cases involved more than one type of allegation, with a total of 1607 separate allegation domains relating to the 1319 cases
  2. bReferrals and censures can cover multiple categories therefore these values may not sum to a total
  3. cGMP – Good Medical Practice, the duties of a doctor registered with the General Medical Council