Recently, we published our documentary titled ‘Malignant: Antisemitism in the NHS’. You can watch it here.
As part of our examination of antisemitism in the healthcare sector, we are making further revelations.
Today, we are looking at the General Medical Council (GMC).
In our documentary, we revealed claims by Tista Chakravarty-Gannon, Head of Outreach Strategic Delivery and National Engagement at the GMC, that the GMC has received many more complaints relating to antisemitism than to other forms of hate, but that the GMC is closing them down quickly. She said: “We’re getting far, far more complaints around antisemitism than we are Islamophobia. And we’re far more likely to close them as compared to the general body, if you will, of complaints.”
In the comments, which were made in a conversation with the British Islamic Medical Association on 16th June 2025, she added that at the GMC “absolutely no work is underway to adopt” the International (IHRA) Definition of Antisemitism. This is despite the fact that the British Government has adopted it, as have many public bodies in the UK. The Government has recently called on all NHS Trusts to adopt it as well.
You can watch the clip here.
We submitted a Freedom of Information request to the General Medical Council to verify her claims.
Between 7th October 2023 and 31st January 2026, the GMC received 732 complaints relating to antisemitism. 651 of those were closed at triage. Only six resulted in real action being taken against the subject, and 25 were still in progress. Excluding the 25 cases that were still in progress at the time, that means the GMC took action in less than 1% of antisemitism cases.
The figures would appear to substantiate Ms Chakravarty-Gannon’s claims quoted above.
(For context, in the period 1st January to 6th October 2023, the GMC reportedly received eight complaints relating to antisemitism, demonstrating just how much the problem has metastasised since October 2023.)
It is not clear whether and how these figures will be affected by the GMC’s commitment in early 2026 to “eliminating disproportionate employer fitness to practise referrals of doctors from an ethnic minority, or who qualified outside the UK, and who are more likely to be referred to the regulator, by the end of 2026.”
This is only one medical regulator: there are numerous. Each will have received complaints relating to antisemitism. Several are mentioned by name in the documentary, including the General Dental Council and the Nursing and Midwifery Council. No regulator has acquired a positive reputation in the Jewish community.
Stephen Silverman, Director of Investigations and Enforcement at Campaign Against Antisemitism said: “These figures demonstrate just how abjectly the GMC has failed in its regulatory duty. With so few antisemitism cases resulting in action against the offender, is it any wonder that anti-Jewish racism and extremism are rife in the NHS? We also know of vexatious cases against Jewish practitioners that have needlessly been dragged out, causing them considerable distress.
“Worse still, the comments that we unearthed in our documentary indicate that the GMC is actually proud of this record of sweeping antisemitism under the carpet. Robust changes are needed to restore sanity to British medical regulation, but that alone is not enough. Clearly, heads must roll across regulatory bodies over this deepening scandal.”
You can find our representative polling of the Jewish community, regarding the NHS, here.
