Foreign docs in 60% of conduct hearings

MORE than 60% of Fitness to Practise (FTP) inquiries completed by the Medical Council in 2010 related to foreign doctors.

Figures supplied by the council up to December 15 show that out of 36 inquiries held in both public and private last year, 22 related to non-Irish doctors.

In addition, of 13 doctors against whom findings were made and publicised on the council’s website in 2010, 12 related to non-Irish doctors — all of whom were found guilty of professional misconduct.