Predeterminations - The GMC expects every panel to do its bidding

"We are surprised by the decision to apply conditions in this case.

Our view was the doctor's name should have been erased from the medical register following the panel's finding of serious professional misconduct." Niall Dickson on the Barton case


If the GMC panel's are independent of the GMC, the GMC would not have a view of the possible outcome of the case. But that comment suggests that the GMC did have a view of outcome.

We know the GMC recruits panelists, selects panelists  for each case, briefs them in advance, provides advice throughout cases, audits their verdicts and pays them between £300 and £500 a day


The GMC must decide the outcome in advance of the case because an adjudicator (The Panel) should not communicate with the investigator (The GMC).

Therefore - GMC panel verdicts are predetermined! 

For those who know even a little law, this goes against every principle of natural justice.

We can therefore assume that the panellists were briefed to give the verdict they did  

Niall Dickson having a "Nelson Moment"

Like Nelson expecting every man to do his duty, Niall Dickson expects every GMC  panellist to do GMC bidding. He has only been there a month and already he understands how the GMC works

Plus la change, Plus la meme chose

Dr Jane Barton is Crowned Miss Conduct GMC 2010

STOP PRESS

Dr Niall Dickson crowns Dr Jane Barton as the New GMC Miss Conduct beauty queen for 2010. To choose his Queen this early in the year, Dr Niall Dickson does not expect any serious competition to follow in her wake(s).

Indeed, we know very little about Dr Jane Barton, her family, her childhood in Guernsey, and why, like her father and brother Professor Christopher Bulstrode, she was inspired to be a doctor. Dr Jane Barton is a bold choice and a dark horse. With trouble looming for the GMC later in the year, Dr Niall Dickson has played his joker early.

British Medicine is as faulty as the GMC. Shipman was an iconic figurehead for the NHS. Death is the quick and easy solution. But death on the NHS is no longer a cheap option. We spend as much as the rest as Europe on healthcare but less on the elderly - who are normally the most expensive part of any healthcare budget. Where is the money going? not on patients but on a bureaucracy of "Health Care Professionals" and their controllers. Save money using the Liverpool Care Pathway or the Guernsey Care Pathway.

GMC, Jane Barton, Andrew Wakefield and the Iraq Inquiry - A good day to bury bad news

GMC takes lessons from Labour 
 Miss Conduct, Doctor of the Year, Jane Barton (click here) gets off

The New Emperor of the General Medical Council (GMC) Niall Dickson has been found lying naked in front of the TV cameras.  

'Our view was the doctor's name should have been erased from the medical register following the panel's finding of serious professional misconduct. We will be carefully reviewing the decision before deciding what further action, if any, may be necessary.'

GMC Panels are carefully selected and their verdicts written a long time in advance. Click here and click here
You mean:


"It was a divisive verdict and I am sorry about that, but if I'm asked whether I believe we're safer and more secure with Dr Jane Barton still on the medical register, I believe that we are. I do not have any regrets about the result, yes I am responsible for instructing the panel but not a single regret. I will do it again'
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In the meantime, doctors like Dr Andrew Wakefield, who ask questions or worse still whistleblow get struck off (click here).

Niall, are you are sitting on another Shipman? There are some interesting coparisons, not least that both were brought before the GMC and let off. Because, if Dr Jane Barton is another Shipman, as surely as Tony Blair will be charged with war crimes, you will be charged as an accessory to murder.

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The GMC 9 - data from the Health Review group

The GMC is finally showing concern over the number of doctors who die whilst being investigation under Fitness to Practice procedures. I had an email from the GMC requesting further information about the GMC 9. This data comes from the Health Review Group set up by the GMC to look their Health Procedures. After which everyone patted themselves on the back and did nothing

Of 212 doctors under the Health procedure in 2003/4 9 died. Nothing has changed, and if the GMC death rate is no longer available, it has no bearing on the one doctor a week who kills themselves. Improving mental health is about making people feel better, about themselves, about the world and about the future. Nothing that has happened in the 10 years since Shipman has reassured either the public or doctors.


Like Voodoo, the force of the GMC depends on the fear it produces in its victims. Its numerous vested interests range from Harley Street, NHS and Private Practice consortium, the drug company mafia, NuLabour, Trusts, scientology, freemasonry, misogyny, the Tavistock Clinic, and common purpose. Once doctors realise that the GMC is nothing more than a corrupt bureaucracy held held together by fear and greed, there is not a lot to be bothered about.

As Dr Rita Pal says, the danger lies taking the GMC seriously. They only weapon is fear, and once that is gone, you can see them for what they are. Of course, it is hard fighting an organisation as warped the GMC. Their approach to Dr Raj Mattu provides ample evidence of their corrupt and unholy alliance with the Trusts.

And if you can stand having your life pored over, your clinical work examined in painstaking detail, your character assassinated and your reputation destroyed, you can stand up to the GMC and if you can treat the twin imposters of triumph and disaster just the same, the GMC has little hold on you.   

Alternatively take your knowledge and skills where it is appreciated. Defrocked doctors do well in the complementary medical fields where their medical knowledge and experience are widely appreciated and many are now making a good living, in fields as diverse as Health Practitioners, Coaches, Live blood analysts, colonic therapists, nutritionists, and psychotherapists as well as running training courses in medical studies.
 
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NEWMEDS "a very timely experiment"

Not content with wrecking your autonomic nervous system with their existing drugs, a group of drug companies have got together at the Maudesly and Institute of Psychiatry to produce this monstrosity

Professor Shitij Kapur, Dean of the Institute of Psychiatry at King's and Leader of the Managing Entity comments: 'NEWMEDS is a very timely experiment. While the biology of psychiatry has made remarkable progress, we have been slow in converting that into innovative and new medications."


But Mr Kapur, there are hundreds of innovative and new medications, even if they don't work well. Although the good professor is right, they are not addictive and people don't like taking them. There is a "withdrawal" syndrome, but people don't crave the drugs. Its difficult, but not impossible to stop taking prescription drugs.

Translate Professor Kapur's remarks, he means: "Despite the last thirty years of drug based experiments in the field of mental health - we have little to show for it. Rather than admit we are wrong we will throw more money in the hope of more significant financial rewards"

and because of
"a lack of accurate animal models to guide the drug discovery, a lack of tools and tests in healthy volunteers that can provide early indication of efficacy; and the reliance of clinical trials on symptom-based Diagnostic and Statistical Manual categories which inevitably leads to biologically heterogeneous groups of patients. NEWMEDS aims to overcome these limitations with a novel approach to drug discovery and strong collaboration within the consortium."

If something doesn't work - like animal experiments and the psychiatric approach, I love it when Stupid suggests you keep doing it.

Beware though - this project is looking for "volunteers". This list of names might give you all the confidence and encouragement you need. AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen Pharmaceutica, Novartis, Orion, Pfizer, Roche, Servier and Wyeth.


If you want to shorten your prison sentence or notch up some hours of community service this could be your breakthrough

Its coming to a Trust near you. For further information visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org





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The MDU, MPS, GMC, £128 million a year fighting amongst ourselves

Follow the money


Each year a doctors spends £415  a year on the GMC - and the GMC spends £42 million prosecuting doctors

Value for money??  you are better off shopping at Tesco


The GMC spends £42 million prosecuting doctors

The Medical Protection Society (MPS) spends £43 million "defending" doctors
The Medical Defence Union (MDU) spends £23 million  "defending" doctors

The GMC spends 42 million pounds a year prosecuting doctors in an elaborate charade that involves  the top QCs in the country. Nothing but the best for Mssrs Naill Dickson and Peter Rubin. If you want to see this circus in action, the Wakefield case is on again. Free entry, Euston rd, running daily until summer. All because, ten years ago, the Lancet published a paper the drug companies didn't like.

Hardly surprising the public think the medical profession are in the hands of Big Pharma and the Vaccine Companies, especially after the swine flu fiasco.

The cost of a GMC hearing is about £100,000 on each side - whose making the profit here?

Lawyers of course! 
 Why would lawyers stop the gravy train? The nice doctors pay their wages. The more trouble you are in, the longer your hearing, the more the lawyers get paid. Why would they help? Its steady money as long as they don't rock the boat. One solicitor even sleeps in the same house as a legal employee of one defence society - hardly a "commercially neutral act".

Lawyers do not care that most doctors end up financially crippled, unemployable and mentally broken. Because a medical colleague didn't like you, because you picked a fight with big Pharma, because you had an episode of depression, or worst of all, you put your patients above management targets.

The MDU and MPS only want your subscriptions - once they have given the appearance of support, you are on your own and the GMC wants you broken and bankrupt.

If you are in trouble,
Get independent legal advice fast. Don't waste time with MDU or MPS lawyers - it will cost you more in the long run
Join a proper Union click here for more details
Make sure your household insurance or breakdown cover includes legal costs 

Interesting quotes from the defence society websites - read the small print and follow the money 


"MPS is not an insurance company. The benefits of membership are discretionary – this allows us the flexibility to provide help and support even in unusual circumstances." (and abandon you at the first opportunity)

The MDU:
"can" provide advice and representation should you find yourself the subject of a GMC or disciplinary investigation relating to clinical practice.

"The MDU is still a mutual company owned by our members, who include doctors, dentists and other healthcare professionals. The benefits of membership of the MDU are all discretionary and are subject to the Memorandum and Articles of Association."
If you want to be represented in your struggles with your employers and your regulatory body -
1 - get proper advice,
2 - make sure your household insurance covers legal costs,
3 - join a proper union like Unite

Don't waste your hopes, energy, time or chances of winning your case whilst the MDU or MPS are acting for you - it is not in their interests to defend you, but it is in their interests to keep the GMC sweet, after all, without the GMC where would they be? 

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Up in the Air - George Clooney, Thinking Woman's Crumpet

If you see one film this year or even this decade, Up in the Air is a good choice. George Clooney does not disappoint. He does it for me, with humour, grace and elegance.

No point going on about it, it is a film about what happens today 

Like "Duplicity", it is an androgenous film. Ryan Bingham could be a man or woman. Costar Alex says to Ryan "I am just like you but with a vagina". Ryan's conversation with Nicola the following morning "Did you wake him up or did you just slip away leaving him feeling like a whore" "I just slipped away" could have as easily been between two men or two women.This androgeny expresses Corporate America. Money does not know whether you are male or female, black, white, gay or straight and sex is just another item on in already crowded itinerary. The gay market might think of remaking it with Brokeback Mountain stars Heath Ledge and Jake Gyllenhaal.

Don't wait - see it!

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