Apparently doctors can have their public disciplinary record scrubbed by just telling the GMC they area different gender (and they don't need to do anything other than just say so).
Basically doctors can have a new unblemished identity if they want one.
"If a doctor had received a historical sanction [i.e. the suspension is no longer in place] prior to transitioning, this information would not be available on their new public-facing record on the medical register,” says a GMC spokesman. The GMC confirms that Dr Upton is one of 62 doctors to have been given new registrations under different GMC numbers, meaning that future patients would be unable to see any details of their doctor’s previous identity by searching the GMC’s online database using the medic’s new name and number."
“Because the GMC has an even more important role than it did a couple of decades ago – recording and marking the careers of doctors – people need to be confident about the identities of doctors,”
Original report: <a class="break-all" href="https://archive.ph/2025.02.20-210704/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/20/doctors-change-gender-scrub-records" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://archive.ph/2025.02.20-210704/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/20/doctors-change-gender-scrub-records/
Wes Streeting on the issue, https://archive.ph/W6lbJ
Sex Matters talking about it: https://x.com/sexmattersorg/status/1892910788626567591?s=46&t=IdtJIRhrVPeFTmzlzqFz4A