UK - General Medical Council Killer Doctor Nepotism Puts Lives At Risk

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This is the same GMC that vilified Dr Andrew Wakefield....see for instancehttp://snipurl.com/u96rv [Age of Autism]January 31, 2010Eye Witness Report from the UK GMC Wakefield, Walker-Smith, Murch Hearing By Martin Walker=============http://snipurl.com/u96lk [One Click]General Medical Council Killer Doctor Nepotism Puts Lives At RiskOne Click Note: Doesn't the General Medical Council (GMC) make you want to throw up? Although found guilty of serious misconduct by the GMC, killer Dr Jane Barton (aka Ms. Diamorphine) has been allowed to keep her job amidst outcry from the affected families. This appalling GMC decision is now subject to review by the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (CHRE). Nowhere has the traditional media chosen to report the news that ex GMC Committee Member Professor Christopher Bulstrode is the aforementioned Dr Jane Barton's brother. When the GMC was questioned this morning, it stonewalled. This is nepotism of the very worst kind in action, putting people's lives at risk. This disgraceful old boys GMC charity club headed by Niall Dickson should be disbanded with immediate effect as a danger to the public.********** 1 February 2010Watchdog to examine Gosport GP decision General Medical Council nepotism rules OK, from left:Niall Dickson, GMC Chief ExecutiveProfessor Christopher Bulstrode, Ex-GMC Committee Member & Dr Jane Barton's brotherKiller Dr Jane Barton, still allowed to work by express permission of the GMC (Caption & Pic Courtesy Of One Click)A decision to allow a Hampshire doctor found guilty of serious professional misconduct to continue working is to be examined by a health watchdog.Dr Jane Barton prescribed "potentially hazardous" levels of drugs to patients who later died at Gosport War Memorial Hospital in the 1990s.An independent panel found her guilty on Friday but recommended she continue working under certain conditions.The Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence is looking at the decision.The organisation monitors how medical professions govern themselves.Dr Barton was accused of a series of failings in her care of 12 patients. Dr Jane Barton said she had to work under "unreasonable pressure"The independent fitness to practise panel of the General Medical Council (GMC) had heard that elderly patients were left in "drug-induced comas" after being over-prescribed painkillers and sedatives.She was found guilty of putting her patients at risk of premature death, but the panel said it had taken into account her 10 years of safe practice as a GP in Gosport and 200 letters of support.Injecting opiates banDr Barton said she had to work under "unreasonable pressure" with an "excessive and increasing burden" in caring for patients.Both the families of relatives who died and the GMC criticised the decision not to strike Dr Barton off the medical register.Dr Barton, who still practises as a GP in Gosport, has had 11 conditions placed upon her work, including a ban on injecting opiates for three years.The GMC hearing followed a jury inquest last year into the deaths of 10 patients at the hospital between 1996 and 1999, which found drugs to be a factor in five cases.Jurors decided that in the cases of patients Robert Wilson, 74, Geoffrey Packman, 66, and Elsie Devine, 88, the use of painkillers had been inappropriate for their conditions.Arthur Cunningham, 79, and Elsie Lavender, 83, were prescribed medication appropriate for their condition, but in doses which contributed to their deaths, jurors found. *************