'Bad Practice': How We Built a Database of Delicensed Doctors

The document outlines how reporters built and vetted a cross-border database of medical license revocations and active licenses, overcoming messy data (especially multi-part names), crafting targeted queries to find potential matches across jurisdictions, and validating identities and reasons for revocation through FOI requests, public registries, anonymized court records, and archived GMC decisions via the Wayback Machine. It stresses manual verification, cultural context for name ordering, and a focus on substantive misconduct rather than technicalities.