Police also failed to check Shipman's criminal record or his General Medical Council (GMC) history.
The General Medical Council confirmed Mr Jones voluntarily removed himself from the medical register, last October.
He was struck off the UK medical register by the General Medical Council in 2005.
The General Medical Council, doctors' regulatory body, found Dr Archibald Alexander guilty of serious professional misconduct.
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So what do the figures released by the General Medical Council (GMC) tell us?
The General Medical Council (GMC) heard how Dr Aboo Thamby saw 19-month-old Harry Connolly in April 2011.
The UK's regulator of doctors, the General Medical Council, does not have guidance that covers medics' blogging.
An umbrella organisation will oversee the work of the General Medical Council and the nurses regulatory body.
Mr van Velzen was suspended by the General Medical Council amid fury from relatives of the dead.
The General Medical Council (GMC) hearing began on Monday and ended on Thursday.
Only a small percentage of complaints progressed to the Ombudsman, the General Medical Council or became medical negligence claims.
General Medical Council lawyers asked for time to digest the findings and the panel will sit again on Monday.
In 2008, the General Medical Council (GMC) found Dr Kerr guilty of misconduct for prescribing sleeping pills to a suicidal patient.
The General Medical Council said high-profile cases and a concern about complaints by parents were deterring doctors from raising the alarm.
The General Medical Council has suspended two doctors involved in the case.
Earlier the committee heard from Paul Philip from the General Medical Council and Professor Tony Hazell from the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
The hospital said it referred the surgeon to the General Medical Council.
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She did so because she felt intimidated by him and wanted to go home, said Simon Jackson QC, representing the General Medical Council.
In 2000, the General Medical Council, the profession's own watchdog, recommended that consent be sought before personal information is handed over to registries.
The General Medical Council (GMC) has published plans to overhaul its structure in an effort to enable it to deal more effectively with rogue doctors.
The parents of a baby who died were not told about the possible retention of their son's organs, the General Medical Council (GMC) has heard.
Patients are normally protected from bogus doctors because all doctors must be registered with the General Medical Council (GMC) before they are allowed to practice.
The General Medical Council (GMC) heard that it was common for Jersey General Hospital to pick people based solely on their cover letter and CV.
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Mr Paterson has been suspended by the General Medical Council (GMC).
The case of gynaecologist Richard Neale once again raises serious questions about how effective the General Medical Council (GMC) is at regulating the medical profession.
He is currently suspended from practising by the General Medical Council.
Another doctor at the surgery, Dr Obiako Okafor, was suspended by the General Medical Council last November, pending the outcome of a fitness to practice investigation.
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At a subsequent General Medical Council (GMC) misconduct hearing in 2011, the doctor claimed the CV claims were a result of a copy and paste "mistake".
The General Medical Council (GMC) has announced it is holding an urgent hearing in order to strike off the GP, who has been taken to Strangeways Prison.
The General Medical Council (GMC) began investigating him in 2005 and found several areas of concern, including Dr Peperkamp's assessment of his patients' conditions and his record keeping.
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