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In their review of suicides whilst under the GMC’s FTP procedures, Casey and Choong argued that the GMC has a duty of care towards its members and that these suicides were preventable. Coroners were also identified as having a duty to report these suicides as preventable to the GMC. However, Casey and Choong could not identify that these deaths had been reported in line with established legislation. They also commented: ‘The high prevalence of suicide among physicians in general should not obscure the fact that suicide whilst under the GMC's FTP investigations is sufficiently unique and deserves special attention. It is thereby a matter of profound regret that it had to take a random FOI request by an independent party to eventually highlight just how serious and extensive the problem is. That FTP investigation has never, prior to that, been isolated and identified as a distinct risk factor for physician suicide meant that practically nothing has been done to avert such deaths’.

Source: Based on Casey and Choong (2016).