So the General Medical Council (GMC) of UK has lost their right to police themselves after they failed to detect how one of them (Harold Shipman) had systematically killed over 200 patients over 20 years (ST 22 Feb 2007).

The inquiry into the case found that the GMC was too focused on "looking after their own".

How's this related to Singapore?
The Singapore Medical Council had raised the Shorvon case to the GMC only to have the case dropped by the GMC who had a cursory review of the case and decided that Shorvon had nothing to answer for.

Shorvon was the UK researcher who was doing medical research in Singapore and had arbitrarily changed medications without regard for patients welfare. He escaped to the UK.

In view of this development, the SMC should appeal the decision.