A specialist has been struck off after a patient who he operated on without approval died. Abdominal cosmetic surgeon Gavin Denton, who was an expert specialist in Macclesfield Healthcare facility for 8 years, has been erased from the medical register following an examination into the death of a 64-year-old man he operated on at Scunthorpe General Health center. The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) hearing, which happened in Manchester, heard Mr Denton ran beyond his capability on a tumour in the patient’s colon without being advised to do so by his manager and cannot require support when the treatment failed. Proof given at the hearing likewise specified that despite examining the client’s tumour as unusable, Mr Denton continued operating without informing his supervisor …
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The findings of a casualty questions performed by Sheriff John Beckett have been published. Niall Dickson, President of the General Medical Council, stated: ‘This is an important and far reaching report and it is essential that lessons are learnt from this dreadful misfortune. We will be studying the report in detail and any implications for the GMC and its duties. ‘The obligation for notifying the DVLA about medical conditions sits first and foremost with the patient. But doctors have responsibilities too and we are clear that they do have a vital role in assisting to keep the public safe. ‘As part of a wider review of patient confidentiality, we have taken actions to reinforce our guidance for doctors, highlighting and re-emphasising the situations where they alre …
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A major examination by the General Medical Council (GMC) has found strong support for propositions to deal with the small number of physicians who put patients at significant threat or cause them damage. More than two thousand people responded to the assessment, consisting of clients, doctors and experts from throughout the health service. The GMC had sought advice from on the assistance for physical fitness to practice panels of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) who choose what sanction physicians should deal with when they are a risk to patients or have put the reputation of the career at risk. The assistance is likewise made use of by GMC choice makers who choose whether to refer a medical professional under examination to an MPTS panel. There was frustrating support for striking doctors off the register following p.
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More than 1,000 medical professionals have written to the General Medical Council backing a trainee consultant who faces losing his career for blowing the whistle. Dr Chris Day fears his strategies to qualify as an expert are over after he was left in charge of 15 seriously ill intensive care patients. He alerted hospitals supervisors it was dangerous for him to care for extensive care plus four other wards. Employers accepted his whistle-blowing issues that there were too few physicians on duty. But months later on – when he was transferring to a new hospital – the 31 year-old found that he had been removed from the national training plan for experts. The move was made by Health Education England – an arm of the Department of Health – which is accountable for junior doctor training. General Medical Council Docto …
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Discussing the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Circuit box (MPTS) choice not to eliminate Dr Steven Burn, Niall Dickson, Chief Executive of the General Medical Council, said: ‘We highly disagree with the decision reached by the panel in the case of Dr Steven Burn, the expert cardiologist. We had called for this doctor to be struck off the medical register and we will do what we can to have the choice altered. ‘We believe it is vital that patients can have confidence in the medical professionals that take care of them, and behaviour of this kind can not be endured. To be reasonable I make sure the large bulk of physicians would concur. ‘We have called the Expert Standards Authority (PSA), the authority responsible for supervising the UK’s health care professional governing bodies, to a.
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We are worried that Dr Waney Squier, maybe Britain’s foremost researcher in the field of paediatric neuropathology, who has been a consultant at the John Radcliffe hospital for 32 years, was struck off the medical register by a General Medical Council panel on Monday, based on her testimony in so-called shaken child syndrome (SBS) cases (Report, theguardian.com, 21 March). She was accused of numerous things, consisting of revealing too little respect for the views of her peers. Every generation has its quasi-religious orthodoxies, and if there is one certainty in history it is that numerous beliefs that were firmly held yesterday will become the things of understanding ridicule tomorrow. Whether this will be the fate of SBS, time will tell. Nevertheless, the case of Dr Squier follows another troubling patt …
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study to find out more about the professional values of the UK’s medical students. Over 2,500 students participated to tell us what they thought. We asked if students believed it was OK to dodge train fares when cash was tight, if it was appropriate to return to a patient’s house for a coffee, and if it was suitable to grumble about a lecture on Facebook. We also requested for views on raising concerns and client safety. Our brand-new report brings together the responses we got. It reveals that broadly, most students have an understanding of professionalism that matches what we would anticipate from future medical professionals. Likewise, we can be cautiously reassured by students’ views on raising concerns about patient safety and acting within their proficiency. The report highli …
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