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A Vital Operation: GMC Established

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Richard Willis charts how order was brought to the medical profession by the foundation of the General Medical Council 150 years ago.

Between 1840 and 1858, a national movement comprising the leading doctors and medics of the age advocated a set of policies designed to protect patients against unlicensed medical practitioners.

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