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Well, what a flurry of emails.

Should this relate - as I am sure it does - to Dame Barbara's acts and omissions in relation to Gary Walker, then as anyone who has bothered to follow his case would know, it's about time too.

As for the more general issue of bullying, the evidence at the Francis Inquiry seemed pretty conclusive to me. Until it is decisively challenged and the evidence accepted at the DH that a bullying culture undermines good care we will have more institutions where shortcomings in care are hidden from view until they become cataclysmic.

Let's give the GMC the benefit of the doubt - they appear to be putting their money where their mouth is