# Fairness of decisions to refer doctors to the MPTS Interim Orders Panel

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [General Medical Council \(GMC\)](/buyers/general-medical-council-gmc/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [University College London](/contract-winners/university-college-london/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £95,000
- Tender value: £95,000
- Award date: 4 September 2015
- Published: 18 November 2016
- Contract start: 26 October 2015
- Contract end: 31 December 2016
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 8fae492e-616b-4190-a66b-45a749052d26-100937
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-d39fd41e-adc9-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b

## Description

The General Medical Council \(GMC\) can refer cases to The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service \(MPTS\) Interim Orders Panel \(IOP\) while allegations about a doctor's fitness to practise are resolved\. The role of the IOP is to consider whether it is necessary to restrict a doctor's registration in order to protect patients while an investigation is being carried out\. We propose to undertake independent research to understand if the greater likelihood of BME UK qualified doctors or doctors with a non-UK PMQ being referred to an IOP compared to the likelihood of white UK qualified doctors being referred to an IOP \[once they are within the FtP process\] can be explained by applying the guidance to the information that was available to the decision maker at the time as constrained in the case files\.

## Related contract awards

- [Lay Advocacy Services](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-59035559-9d4d-4966-a7ad-917d81c2e1a7): General Medical Council \(GMC\)
- [Toxicology Services](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-63b13d2d-c216-48d6-a3a8-dd3a67306eea): General Medical Council \(GMC\)
- [Primary Source Verification for Overseas Doctors](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-6fc38c8d-f182-4aa7-a7c9-d9e187a10d41): General Medical Council \(GMC\)
- [Chief Scientific Adviser \(con\_28354\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-d056a0e1-a595-4135-a361-aa95a5f5db47): Department for Education
- [Historian in Residence](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-7e55f5f5-72bb-4991-8f1a-623b7f66e9ff): ST OSYTH PRIORY & PARISH TRUST
- [R & D Fellowship Secondment - Leonel Tchadjie Noumbissie](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-00294f51-da33-4ce2-a126-4229a5ba7e5b): Defra Commercial

## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/8fae492e-616b-4190-a66b-45a749052d26-100937)