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Anonymous 11:16 am- I am puzzled as to why you are puzzled because the need to investigate the complaint and the relevance of her registration as a GP are self evident. Anyway my view is as follows:

- Hakin was given the role of Director of Commissioning in part because she is a GP and the central thrust of the Government's policy was about transferring commissioning from "bureaucrats" to GPs.

- The suggestion is that she may have failed to uphold the ethical standards required of a GP by placing the achievement of targets above patient safety. This would clearly reflect on her fitness to practice.

- Finally the previous enquiry which cleared her did not consider the evidence assembled by these journalists.

Not bizarre at all really- unlike the current approach to "reforming" the NHS...