Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman has the authority to investigate matters of sexual misconduct where the (a) General Medical Council or (b) NHS Trust Disciplinary routes have been exhausted.

The Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman (PHSO) investigates complaints about National Health Service care or service where a complainant believes that they have suffered an injustice or hardship.

Where a complaint has not been resolved by the NHS complaints procedure, the complainant can raise it with the PHSO. It is for the PHSO to decide which complaints they investigate.