Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS medical staff were struck off for clinical negligence in each year between 2019 and 2024.

The Department does not hold this information. If there is a concern that a regulated healthcare professional has been clinically negligent, we would expect them to be referred to their regulator. All healthcare professional regulators have a statutory duty to consider any concerns that are referred to them and to investigate and take appropriate action to protect the public when they meet the threshold for regulatory action. In the most serious cases, the outcome of these investigations may be that the professional is erased from the register, meaning they can no longer legally practise.

There are multiple healthcare professional regulators in the United Kingdom, each holding their own register. Data on the outcomes of fitness to practice proceedings, including the number of individuals erased or ”struck off” from the register, can be found at the respective regulators' websites.