Fiona Barnett

Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service

We provide an adjudication service for doctors registered in the UK. We operate separately from the GMC's role in investigating complaints and presenting cases at hearings. Our tribunals make independent decisions about doctors' fitness to practise based on our statutory over-arching objective to protect the public. Each of our hearings is conducted by three individuals, taken from a pool of around 300 tribunal members, all of whom are appointed and trained by the MPTS.