The Medical Council is to publish a report on the Dr Moira Woods inquiry.
The council's president, Prof Gerard Bury, said yesterday the report would be published shortly. Late last year the council's Fitness to Practise Committee found Dr Woods guilty of professional misconduct in relation to aspects of her diagnoses of suspected sexual abuse of children in five families in the late 1980s.
Each family has been sent a copy of that part of the Fitness to Practise Committee report which refers to its own children. The Fitness to Practise Committee had originally wanted to hold the inquiry in public but this decision was subsequently overturned by Mr Justice Barr in the High Court.
He ruled, however, that the council could publish a report which did not identify parents or children.
The council yesterday published a survey of registered medical practitioners. It showed that 62 per cent of doctors are male and 38 per cent female.
The average age of doctors is 47 years. Just over a fifth (21 per cent) of doctors will reach retirement age by 2012 and just over half (51 per cent) by 2023.