Exclusive: Sanctions against 150 doctors for sexual misconduct are ‘tip of the iceberg’ independent.co.uk/news/health/sa…
The Royal College of Surgeons’ Women in Surgery chair has said the issues are “widespread” across the health services 
In January The Independent revealed hundreds of nurses and other healthcare professionals have been sanctioned in recent years for sexual misconduct allegations, including more than 100 incidents of sexual abuse of child patients
The news comes after hundreds of patients records are being reviewed at a West Midlands hospital after a surgeon was arrested for allegations of sexual assault on a child
Last year surgeons Becky Fisher and Simon Flemming wrote an academic paper exposing the problem of sexual assault, harassment and rape in surgery and surgical training
In interviews with The Independent both have warned the “institutional” problem goes beyond surgery across all of healthcare services
Mr Flemming said the figures from the GMC were the “the very tip of the iceberg” in terms of actual levels of sexual assault within healthcare
Ms Fisher warned “Nobody who’s currently in training has been affected by this has really been able to speak out.”
Tamzin Cuming, chair of the Royal College of Surgeon’s Women In Surgery forum, said “we need to stamp out the misogynistic atmosphere, the kind of casual way that comments are not repelled in the way that they would be in normal society, within operating theatres”
In a statement a spokesperson for the GMC said: “We take allegations of sexual misconduct by doctors against colleagues or their patients extremely seriously.”
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