Record number of doctors banned for serious misconduct

Not specific to psychiatry, but part of the larger picture in Britain:

According to this report, a record number of doctors were banned from practising medicine last year after being found guilty of serious professional misconduct by Britain's General Medical Council, the British doctors' disciplinary body. Figures show that 72 doctors were struck off or suspended from the medical register in 2002 compared with 53 in 2001, an increase of 36 per cent. An annual average of about 1,000 complaints in 1995, rose to 3,000 by 1999 and continued to rise to 4,470 in 2000.