Table 1 Physicians referred for adjudication by their characteristics
Variable | Categories | No. | (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
Allegation | Misconduct | 344 | (32.8) |
Performance | 312 | (29.7) | |
Conviction | 210 | (20.0) | |
Health | 126 | (12.0) | |
Other | 57 | (5.4) | |
Area of practice | GP | 307 | (29.3) |
Specialist | 263 | (25.1) | |
Neither (not in training) | 396 | (37.8) | |
Neither (in training) | 83 | (7.9) | |
Attended | Yes | 695 | (66.3) |
No | 354 | (33.7) | |
Legally represented | Yes | 257 | (24.5) |
No | 233 | (22.2) | |
Unknown | 559 | (53.3) | |
Licensed | Yes | 1 021 | (97.3) |
No | 28 | (2.7) | |
(Decision) outcome | No impairment | 241 | (23.0) |
Impairment | 116 | (11.1) | |
Suspension | 384 | (36.6) | |
Erasure | 308 | (29.4) | |
Outcome year | 2012 | 120 | (11.4) |
2013 | 210 | (20.0) | |
2014 | 211 | (20.1) | |
2015 | 225 | (21.4) | |
2016 | 213 | (20.3) | |
2017 | 70 | (6.7) | |
PMQ region | ROW | 487 | (46.4) |
UK | 398 | (37.9) | |
EEA | 164 | (15.6) | |
Race | BME | 463 | (44.1) |
White | 321 | (30.6) | |
Not recorded | 265 | (25.3) | |
Sex | Male | 895 | (85.3) |
Female | 154 | (14.7) | |
Source (of initial referral) | Employer | 411 | (39.2) |
(Member of the) public | 134 | (12.8) | |
Another physician | 104 | (9.9) | |
Self-referral | 79 | (7.5) | |
Police | 69 | (6.6) | |
Regulator | 58 | (5.5) | |
Other | 194 | (18.5) | |
Total | 1 049 | (100.0) |