Professional Standards Authority: Doctors’ sexual misconduct: a turn in the tide? (1 September 2025)

Summary

Dr Emma Yapp, Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol, presented at the PSA's annual research conference in 2024, which focused on the experiences of witnesses in fitness to practise proceedings. During this event, Dr Yapp discussed the Powerful Perpetrators project, which examines how UK professional regulators address sexual misconduct perpetrated by their own registrants. Here Dr Yapp and fellow researcher, Allegra Boka-Mawete, explore whether the tide is turning on this issue.