Great Ormond Street cardiologist is suspended over allegations of child abuse

A surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital is being investigated over claims of child abuse.
The allegations against Philipp Bonhoeffer, a world-renowned cardiologist, relate to his time working for a charity in Africa.
He was suspended two years ago but the case has only just come to light. The hospital has set up a helpline for parents of children he has treated.
Four families had contacted the helpline by last night.
The 49-year-old, who was born in Germany, began working at the famous London children’s hospital in 2001 and has treated hundreds of young patients as head of cardiology.
He had been due before a General Medical Council tribunal in October but the case was halted after his lawyers submitted that there was not enough evidence.
This objection will be heard at the High Court today – but the GMC insists its investigation will go ahead regardless.
Although details of the case have not been made public, it is believed to concern a man who alleges he was sexually abused by the doctor when he was a child.
Dr Bonhoeffer is also alleged to have tried to bribe the man to make him retract his accusations.
The doctor, who lives in Camden, North London, strongly denies all charges made against him.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1374304/Former-Great-Ormond-Street-heart-surgeon-Philipp-Bonhoeffer-suspended-child-abuse-claims.html#ixzz1IuqhPQTN
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Spot the difference:

Glenfield Hospital cardiologist, Gerry McCann, on the other hand, was NOT suspended from his job for repeated negligence of his three young children which led to one of them being believed to have met her death in the apartment whilst left alone. Dr McCann is also suspected of having concealed the body of his daughter to allow him to set up a Fund which has attracted millions of pounds, some of which was used to pay his mortgage.

Instead of being suspended, Dr Gerry McCann was permitted to make use of Glenfield Hospital to take part in a documentary for Channel 4 (Cutting Edge Madeleine was here).

Further, a letter was sent to the General Medical Council by Tony Bennett of the Madeleine Foundation:

The Madeleine Foundation

Combating child neglect

Website: www.madeleinefoundation.org.uk

Monday 13 July 2009

Chairman,
Fitness to Practise Committee,
General Medical Council,
St. James’s Buildings
79 Oxford Street
MANCHESTER
M1 6FQ.

Dear Sir/Madam

re: Fitness to Practise: Dr Gerald McCann and Dr Kate McCann (formerly Dr Kate Healy)

I write to bring to your attention a report about the above couple, both doctors, published in the Sunday People yesterday.

Dr Gerald McCann and Dr Kate McCann are the parents of Madeleine McCann, who was reported missing by her mother at around 10.00pm on Thursday 3 May 2007. The circumstances of her disappearance remain mysterious and as yet unsolved. They were made official suspects of involvement in their daughter’s disappearance in September 2007, a status that lasted until July 2008 when the Portuguese judicial authorities concluded that at that time there was insufficient evidence to charge them or anyone else with a crime against Madeleine.

Yesterday, the Sunday People published an article based on what they said was a 34-page libel writ served in Portugal against Goncalo Amaral. The McCanns and their advisers have already announced in the press that they intended to sue Mr Amaral for libel. Mr Amaral was the senior investigating officer in the case until he was removed from the investigation in controversial circumstances in October 2007. A month earlier, he was the man responsible for declaring the McCanns to be official suspects in their daughter’s disappearance.

The Sunday People says it has translated the libel writ from the Portuguese. The McCanns are claiming damages of £1 million from Mr Amaral. I wish to bring to your attention the medical and psychological condition of these two doctors, one of whom continues to practise, and both of whom we understand to be on the GMC Register.

The writ says of Dr Kate McCann that she is ‘deeply and seriously depressed”. The writ goes on to describe both of the McCanns as suffering from:

· permanent anxiety,
· insomnia,
· lack of appetite,
· irritability,
· indefinable fear.

In the writ, according to the Sunday People, the McCanns further describe both of themselves as:

· “totally destroyed”,
· “irreparably damaged”, and
· “totally destroyed from a moral, social, ethical, emotional and family point of view”.

The question that arises is whether either of these doctors is fit to practise or indeed to remain on the GMC Register, at least until these serious psychological problems, suggestive of mental illness, subside. We suggest that the appropriate committee of the GMC should consider (a) suspending them from the GMC until a psychiatrist deems that they have recovered from the above symptoms and (b) providing them with the expert psychiatric help and counselling that anyone exhibiting such severe symptoms should receive from the N.H.S. Presumably if the McCanns are exhibiting these symptoms there are reports available from their G.P. or a psychiatric specialist confirming those symptoms.

The other possibility of course, is that the McCanns are grossly exaggerating the extent of their depression or even lying about it, in order to make as much money as possible from Mr Amaral. If that were the case, there would definitely be a whole series of other questions about their fitness to remain in practice and remain on the GMC Register. Many videos and still images exist of the McCanns laughing and joking and appearing to be anything but severely depressed. That would suggest at least the possibility that they have deliberately exaggerated their sadness at and reaction to the loss of Madeleine in order to make as much money as possible from their proposed libel action...

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Posted on our forum here

Other child neglecting doctors were paid thousands of pounds

Nurse struck off by General Medical Council for filming neglect of patients wins appeal

A nurse who was struck off the register for secretly filming care for the elderly at a Brighton hospital has won her battle to return to work.

The High Court approved a settlement between Margaret Haywood and the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

The striking-off order imposed in April this year will be replaced with a one-year caution, which means she can now work as a nurse.

Ms Haywood filmed at the Royal Sussex Hospital for a BBC Panorama programme.

Footage from Ms Haywood's filming was broadcast in July 2005 and showed examples of neglect, including an elderly patient sitting in clothes he had soiled the night before.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council found her guilty of misconduct during a fitness to practise hearing and she appealed in May.

Ms Haywood, from Liverpool, said she was delighted with the verdict.

"Losing my registration after 25 years as a nurse was devastating," she said.

"I have been overwhelmed and humbled by the patient and public interest in my case and would like to thank everyone who has supported me, including the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) for running my appeal.

Full article BBC News

Other posts on this blog about Margaret Haywood

Some medical staff are struck off for secretly filming neglect and abuse in the NHS.

But Dr Gerry McCann, who is suspected of neglect and concealment of his own child's body, has the approval of the NHS to film - as long as it's for personal reasons.

And a doctor can work in the NHS even if suspected of paedophilia.

At Leicester Hospital, anyway.

Funny old world.

Well done Margaret!

Taxpayers face big bills for dealing with GP's misconduct

Denis Campbell, health correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Monday 11 May 2009

Family doctors accused of misconduct are being suspended from treating patients for up to four and a half years and costing taxpayers as much as £900,000 for each case, the NHS has revealed.

The disclosures have sparked demands for the doctors' disciplinary system to be speeded up so more money can be spent on frontline health services and less on paying GPs barred from working.

Figures provided by primary care trusts (PCTs) in England show that 134 GPs have been suspended over the last three years at a cost of £8.2m. That only takes into account their pay – any suspended GP receives 90% of their normal salary – so the real costs to the PCTs will be higher, including the costs of hiring replacements and pursuing the complaints.

The details, obtained by the Liberal Democrats under the Freedom of Information Act from 108 of England's 152 PCTs, have been passed to the Guardian.

Norman Lamb, the party's health spokesman, said: "These figures are scandalous, involve a huge waste of public money and show that the system of pursuing allegations against doctors is failing."

Full article in the Guardian
'Scandal' of £1.2m for suspended NHS staff

Some misconduct, though, is fully supported by the NHS and GMC

Doctor David Payne, Leicester Royal Infirmary, suspected of paedophilia

Dr Gerry McCann, Glenfield Hospital, suspected of neglect, involvement in his own daughter's death, concealment of her body and fraudulently obtaining millions of pounds from the general public to help pay his mortgage

Tiffany Manser, Head of Communications UHL, supports Gerry McCann's use of hospital address for fraudulent fund

Dr Allan Cole, Medical Director, UHL

Whistleblower nurse Margaret Haywood found guilty of misconduct for filming elderly patient neglect

Margaret Haywood, guilty of misconduct

Dr Gerry McCann's agenda: When exactly is it appropriate to use an NHS ward as a TV studio

By Trixy on the 3 arguidos

I was enfuriated last night to see McCann's patients exploited in his quest for publicity. He is a consultant in the NHS, therefore a public service employee funded by the taxpayer.

His primary concern at work should be to his patients.

Ward staff’s primary goal is to care for their patients, this includes promoting their dignity and respect.

Ill and dying patients deserve more dignity and respect than to be inconvenienced by the ego of a consultant and his entourage of a film crew trailing round the ward. Especially as no one on the ward apart from McCann's ego would benefit from this documentary.

This film crew was a unnecessary distraction on this ward and I have no doubt patient care would be compromised by their presence.

Also a lot of the 1:1 filming of McCann was done while he was in the hospital, presumably on duty.

So are we now paying consultants to spend their time promoting their self interests rather than caring for the patients who they are employed/paid to care for?

I would also like to know where McCann is getting all the annual leave from to swan round the world visiting CEOP and making TV shows.

An NHS ward should NEVER have been used as a PR studio for this egotistical consultant.

McCanns need for publicity should not be done on NHS time and patients, even consenting ones should never be used as props for their campaign.

Please join me in complaining to the health minister and the GMC regarding this unnecessary intrusion on an NHS ward.

PATIENTS DESERVE BETTER FROM OUR NHS.

johnsona@parliament.uk

practise@gmc-uk.org

Source: COMPLAIN TO HEALTH MINISTER ALAN JOHNSON

Gerry McCann examining patients at Glenfield
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Update: Complaint to GMC about Filming at Glenfield Hospital - Reply

Doctors with major convictions still treating patients

THOUSANDS of patients are being treated by doctors convicted of serious crimes or punished for appallingly non-professional conduct.

The Sunday Express examined hundreds of files and uncovered scores of medics who are allowed to practise in spite of committing shocking offences.

Under the law all cautions and convictions given to doctors have to be examined by their governing body, the General Medical Council.

However, in many cases the GMC allows the disgraced medics to continue practising, while issuing a warning or temporary suspension.

A small number of court cases hits the headlines. Others, including cases of assault, drink driving, drug abuse and domestic violence, remain unpublicised and can only be found in the archives of the GMC website.

The Sunday Express examined details of misconduct hearings over the last year and our inquiries uncovered:

Two doctors allowed to work after manslaughter convictions.

An anaesthetist who watched a movie, read a newspaper and fell asleep during surgery.

A medic responsible for a hit-and-run car crash who was suspended for just nine months.

A doctor who punched a woman in the face who was suspended for three months.

A physician who failed to report his concerns about morphine doses administered by the serial killer Dr Harold Shipman.

Our investigation comes two years after the Shipman inquiry called for a radical overhaul of the GMC, which was accused of “looking after its own” and doing too little to protect patients.

Dame Janet Smith, who led the Shipman inquiry, recommended that the GMC no longer has sole responsibility for assessing doctors’ fitness to practise. The GMC says it has made wholesale changes, but our research indicates the reforms have not gone far enough.

In a previous interview Dame Janet said: “I am by no means convinced that new GMC procedures will protect patients.”

Magda Taylor, of patients’ group The Informed Parent, said: “Why would I want to go and see a doctor if he was a drug addict, done for manslaughter or had beaten someone up?"

Source: Daily Express

Is the General Medical Council Fit to Practise?

Is Doctor Gerry McCann fit to continue working as a doctor?

NHS complaints system 'pointless'

Killer doctors

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Appalling non-professional conduct by the McCanns and Tapas 7:

Neglecting children, drugging children, faking abduction, framing an innocent man, lying to police, refusing to co-operate with the police, the fraudulent fund, hiding a body, perverting the course of justice... all of which is ignored by the GMC and UHL.

Would you want to be treated by one of these doctors?

Source: Newser and Times

Is Dr Gerry McCann fit to continue to practice working as a doctor?

"I cannot think about anything else at the moment other than finding Madeleine. I do not know if I would be safe to go back and practise as a doctor at the moment." Gerry McCann, 11 June 2007


Written by 'TTW4' on The 3 Arguidos forum.

We all trust our doctors (well most of us) to tell us the truth.
'Do no harm' this is one on the tennents of the medical profession. Someone is ill, the doctor establishes the cause of the illness, tells the patient, and then uses his or her best skill and judgement to diagnose a remedy for the condition.
Doctors are trained to do this and we inherently rely upon their judgement.
They spend 7 long years honing their skills for just such an event. The GPs surgery is a daily battleground against disease and illness of one sort or another. When in hospital we again rely on yet more skilled and trained physicians to carry out even more tests and further diagnosis.
We are entirely reliant for our well being upon the ability of such highly trained and professional staff. The decisions they make in the course of their daily lives can concern real life or death situations. One wrong move one careless prognosis and it's all over. The doctors decision making process has to be of the highest calibre that is why we as patients in the NHS naturally demand such high standards. Our taxes have paid for their training and we have endowed our doctors with our trust. That trust demands they employ all of their talents both, learnt and acquired to fulfil their professional obligations under licence within society.
Should things go awry then there is a structure in place to question the competence of the professional involved. I make no case either for or against such arbitration and or it's effectiveness, I only propose that society acknowledges that administering lethal medication or process demands some sort of regulation. Someone could get hurt.
The Doctors McCann and Healy are both registered with the necessary authorities to practice in accordance with the current guidelines, therefore it can be said they have accepted societys bargain and seek in their professional lives to make the very best of decisions concerning their patients care.

30 April 2008 Kate Healy says she sees Madeleine in 'visions', she later revealed in her visions she sees Maddy as, "like a little buddy to me."(*1 Source)
For the time being Dr. Kate Healy is not practicing as a GP. This is a well thought our and carefully considered strategy on the part of her and her familys. The trauma she has suffered during the course of the last 2 years with the loss of her daughter and under such tragic circumstances demands nothing less. Healys decision making process must be impaired, and it is a well known fact, and understood amongst professionals and those in the social services community, that psychiatric scarring can become apparent in subjects, if not immediately then sometimes years after such an horrific event.
The consequence of this is, and Kate Healy knows I am sure, that it is extremely unlikely that she will ever sit inside a GPs surgery again as a practicing doctor. In making this decision she has no doubt consulted with professional councillors and psychologists who will have offered the very best and most considered of opinions as to whether or not Kate Healys state of mind is truly fit to practice medicine again. On balance Kate Healy is to be applauded for her consideration of her patients well being.

On the other hand Dr. Gerald McCann sees his decision making process as unimpaired. I say this because despite having suffered the exact same trauma and psychological upset as his wife he returned to work some 6 months after the loss of his daughter apparently suffering no ill after effects.
Having been made a suspect in the disappearance of his daughter did not appear to present any kind of psychological upset to him in the slightest. A remarkable feat by anyones reckoning, if you can really call that sort of mental remoteness and isolation remarkable at all for a normal human being.
As a consultant in his field (Cardiovascular Medicine) I understand his patient contact is limited, and that surely comes as some relief, but he is still making decisions concerning patients who are referred to him. He still has to determine and interpret data, scans and propose a course or assess a course od treatment. This requires an unimpaired decision making process, something Dr. Gerald McCann claims to have, and has seemingly demonstrated in spades.

01.11.07 The ability to walk through the door to your place of work and receive a pat on the back from a colleague, does not of it's own accord, I am sorry to say, automatically mean that you are a fit and proper person to practice medicine.
Was Gerald McCann totally unaffected? Psychologically Dr.Gerald McCann was affected and he admitted some of his darkest thoughts here:
"You're in the middle of a horror movie really, a nightmare".
"Pressure such as I've never felt before".
"You're under attack in one way or another".
"The speculation takes you to the worst places and the worst place would have been being charged, potentially being put in jail, certainly being detained to face charges that could have taken years to materialise, being separated from Sean and Amelie."
It seems he was affected and in much the same way as his wife.

Leaving Portugal Dr. Gerald McCann considers his future in the UK, and how his actions so shortly before, on the 30 of July 2007 belied his confused and irrational thinking. Amongst other things it was noted that:
'Gerald McCann insisted on constantly delivering to Ricardo Paiva, letters and e-mails that he received and selected. Most of them from psychics and mediums, and that in general held no credible information about the whereabouts of Madeleine and of her alleged abductor'.(* Note 1)
To put selected communications from psychics and internet mediums in front of the Portuguese investigating authorities is plainly neither empirical, deductive, or rational thinking. Just 90 days later and Dr. Gearld McCann would start employing his 'logic' with real people in real situations.

30.04.08 Seen in the McCann house at Rothley. This is the mail sorting box system the doctors Kate and Gerald have instituted to cope with their incoming mail. The doctors for the best part of a year have been on the receiving end of numerous death threats, poison pen letters and bile of the most unimaginable kind. The sorting boxes mean they can at least try to compartmentalise these 'mental' assaults into some sort of manageable psychological onslaught.
The hope is, no doubt, they will by these actions then be able to mentally deal with the outpouring of hate they have stirred up in the hearts and minds of the British public. To be on the receiving end of such vitriol and abuse must pay a heavy price, and none more so than on the minds of the Doctors Kate and Gerald McCann.
Perhaps because Kate McCann is a woman she more readily and easily seems to demonstrate a more complete understanding of her abilities and state of mind. Gerald McCann, as a man, seems more ready to suffer denial and exclusion as his mental remedy, for his discomfort. The fact that a doctor is walking through the doors of a hospital in this country to administer advice and opinion, of the most sensitive kind, to patients under his care, when he himself is the subject of so much trauma, uncertainty and abuse must surely call into question that doctors ability to perform.
UHL as Dr. Gerald McCanns employer will have to look long and hard to see whether or not Dr. Gerald McCanns true state of mind is an enhancement to cardiovascular patient care in Glenfield Hospital, or as some might think a hinderance.

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Complete article with comments here

Related: I'm Glad You're Not My Doctor McCann

General Medical Council allows doctors with major convictions to carry on treating patients

By Lucy Johnston, Health Editor

THOUSANDS of patients are being treated by doctors convicted of serious crimes or punished for appallingly non-professional conduct.

The Sunday Express examined hundreds of files and uncovered scores of medics who are allowed to practise in spite of committing shocking offences.

Under the law all cautions and convictions given to doctors have to be examined by their governing body, the General Medical Council.

However, in many cases the GMC allows the disgraced medics to continue practising, while issuing a warning or temporary suspension.

A small number of court cases hits the headlines. Others, including cases of assault, drink driving, drug abuse and domestic violence, remain unpublicised and can only be found in the archives of the GMC website.

The Sunday Express examined details of misconduct hearings over the last year and our inquiries uncovered:

Two doctors allowed to work after manslaughter convictions.

An anaesthetist who watched a movie, read a newspaper and fell asleep during surgery.

A medic responsible for a hit-and-run car crash who was suspended for just nine months.

A doctor who punched a woman in the face who was suspended for three months.

A physician who failed to report his concerns about morphine doses administered by the serial killer Dr Harold Shipman.

Our investigation comes two years after the Shipman inquiry called for a radical overhaul of the GMC, which was accused of “looking after its own” and doing too little to protect patients.

Dame Janet Smith, who led the Shipman inquiry, recommended that the GMC no longer has sole responsibility for assessing doctors’ fitness to practise. The GMC says it has made wholesale changes, but our research indicates the reforms have not gone far enough.

In a previous interview Dame Janet said: “I am by no means convinced that new GMC procedures will protect patients.” Magda Taylor, of patients’ group The Informed Parent, said: “Why would I want to go and see a doctor if he was a drug addict, done for manslaughter or had beaten someone up?

These cases show many are working who are not healthy minded.” Doctors convicted of the most serious offences can practise for months and even years while they await a GMC hearing.

Three years ago Dr Amit Misra and Dr Rajeev Srivastava were convicted of manslaughter due to gross negligence following the death of six-year-old Sean Phillips at Southampton General Hospital in June 2000 during a routine knee operation.

The doctors failed to react to obvious warning signs that Sean had developed an infection and he died.

Despite warnings from the hospital trust to the GMC, a police investigation and the subsequent manslaughter conviction in April 2003, the GMC did not take action until October 2005 – more than five years after Sean’s death.

A misconduct committee suspended Dr Misra from the register and allowed Dr Srivastava to practise under supervision.

In a GMC hearing last July, Dr Christopher Vella Bonnici was found guilty of failing to realise a 35-year-old patient was awake during surgery at a Birmingham hospital.

Weeks later, he watched a DVD on his laptop during an operation and in January 2004 another woman who was awake during surgery said she felt instruments being inserted.

Dr Bonnici was also found guilty of reading a newspaper and sleeping during other operations.

The GMC hearing concluded his conduct was “unprofessional, irresponsible and below standard”.

It suspended Dr Bonnici for a month. In another case last year, Dr Graeme Holt was convicted of assault in Glasgow.

He pushed a woman on to a bed and punched her in the face, severely injuring her. The GMC suspended him for three months.

Dr Szymon Jozef Niemiec failed to appear before a GMC hearing in January after his car struck a 12-year-old boy and he fled the scene. The GMC suspended him for nine months.

Many cases involve doctors convicted of drug offences. Dr Richard Archer, 41, pleaded guilty to stealing morphine, pethidine and diamorphine in King’s Lynn in July 2003.

Archer was a partner at the Heacham, Norfolk group of surgeries which cover the Queen’s Sandringham estate.

He received a 12-month suspended jail sentence. When the conviction was assessed by the GMC last December it ruled that Dr Archer, now practising in Wilmslow, Cheshire, could work under supervision for 12 months.

A spokeswoman for the GMC said: “Our primary concern is not protecting doctors but patient safety.

We try to hear cases as quickly as possible.” The Sunday Express contacted the doctors named in this report but they were either unavailable or declined to comment.

Sunday September 23, 2007
Source: Sunday Express
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My letters of complaint to University Hospitals Leicester and GMC (which remain unresolved)
Is the General Medical Council Fit to Practise?
Postcode Lottery
NHS complaints system 'pointless'

Here begins the cover-up for Dr Sabah "I didn't notice Baby P had a broken back, broken ribs or torn ear" al-Zayyat

After all, if the GMC are quite happy to have child neglecting doctors working in the NHS, then why not also have terrorist doctors who try to blow up airports and a paediatrician who couldn't be arsed to examine an abused baby hours before he died in agony, alone in his blood-splattered cot? But woe betide any doctors who send spoof emails because that really does undermine public confidence.

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"Doctor who treated Baby P was not told of suspected abuse"

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 6:14 PM on 03rd December 2008

Social workers failed to tell the doctor who saw Baby P two days before his death that they feared he was being abused, it was reported today.

The blunder meant that paediatric consultant Dr Sabah al-Zayyat did not examine him properly, failing to spot his broken back., according to the London Evening Standard.

He was sent home and within 48 hours was lying dead in his blood-spattered cot.

A senior source involved in the investigation told the paper that if the basic information had been passed on to the hospital consultant Baby P would be alive.

Dr al-Zayyat was sacked from her locum role by Great Ormond Street Hospital for failing to examine the child properly and suspended from practising by the General Medical Council while under investigation.

She concluded the child was ‘miserable ‘and ‘cranky’ because of a common cold and sent him home, deferring examination for three weeks.

It was the last occasion a medical professional would see the 17-month-old toddler alive.

But the Evening Standard has learnt that the doctor was never briefed on the child's background.

Dr al-Zayyat believed the 17-month-old's boy's injuries, which were visible to the naked eye, were self-inflicted as his mother led her to believe he was selfharming.

The revelation is the latest blow to Haringey social services, whose director Sharon Shoesmith was removed from her post by Education Secretary Ed Balls on Monday for overseeing a string of ‘devastating failings’.

Today the Met's Acting Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson said said the damming report into failings exposed by the Baby P tragedy would be acted upon.

He said: 'Nobody could have read the reports of Baby P's death and not been deeply saddened and moved and felt quite shocked about what has gone on here and I include myself in that.

'But it is right and proper that questions are asked, should be asked, have been asked, about why the various agencies, including my agency, charged with protecting vulnerable children and charged with protecting Baby P, were not able to save that child's life, in order to prevent the same thing happening again.'

He said that following the review into Haringey children's services, the Met's Acting Chief Inspector of Constabulary would make an additional report with further recommendations specific to the Met.

He said: 'Where things have gone wrong we will work with our partners to put them right.

'Our priority has to be to ensure the effective safeguards and practices are in place.'

Five other staff have been suspended or banned from working with children over Haringey's failure to protect Baby P.

The source said: ‘It is unbelievable-Dr al-Zayyat was not aware Baby P was on the child protection register. It was basic incompetence that she wasn't told.

‘If the doctor had known the baby was subject to a child protection plan it is inconceivable she would have allowed the baby to go home with his mother.

'She would have subjected him to a much more rigorous examination. If the doctor had known the child was at risk, Baby P would still be alive today.’

Baby P had been referred to the Child Development Centre at St Ann's Hospital in Tottenham by social services over concerns he was being abused. He had been on the Child Protection Register for nine months.

He was taken to the hospital on 1 August last year by his mother and a friend. No social worker was present at the examination.

But the source said today: ‘When the child turned up, the doctor didn't know why. She knew he had been referred by social services but didn't know it was for neglect or abuse.

'She thought baby P's behavioural difficulties and the head wound was caused by his own head banging.’

Baby P's stepfather and mother have both been convicted of causing or allowing his death along with their lodger Jason Owen.

Dr al-Zayyat is contesting the termination of her contract and faces a GMC hearing next year.

Source: Mail online
BABY P forum on the 3 arguidos
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'Baby P was clumsy with a high pain threshold,' Council's astonishing verdict on toddler as it emerges officials are investigating ANOTHER abuse case
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Walsall doctor suspended after writing homophobic letter
Nov 4 2008

Mr Andrew Popat, chairing the GMC hearing, said: “Dr Siddiq’s actions were found to be inappropriate, not in the best interests of his patients and, in relation to the letter to Pulse, liable to undermine public confidence.”

Source: Birmingham Post

General Medical Council accepts racist doctors

"Blears is one of the most senior Labour figures to voice such concerns, and in such forthright terms. Her wake-up call came as the fallout from the posting of the membership list continued to be felt by the BNP. Police forces across the country were continuing to scour the lists for the names of serving officers - who are banned from joining the party. But the General Medical Council said it would not be taking action against any medical practitioners found to be members of the party."

This comment from Dr Rita Pal: NHS: Behind the Headlines

This means that the GMC would be happy to have BNP members sitting on their panels and committees. There is no outright preventative measure. We must congratulate the General Medical Council for their open mindedness. The comments below are therefore accepted with the GMC's blessings. Remember all you ethnic minority doctors in trouble at the GMC for emails you have written - here it is, classic racist behaviour accepted by the GMC.

"BNP chief propagandist Dr 'Phill Edwards' (real name Dr Stuart Russell) was recorded venting his spleen by claiming Black people were intellectually inferior.The BNP press officer was recorded by a student saying Black children have a low IQ and "will probably mug you." Dr Russell has since stood by his comments

He was quoted as saying: 'It's not a question of whether we like or dislike them, it's a question of whether they as a racial group are of any danger, shall we say, to the peace, stability and indigenous culture of Britain and we think that they are."

He also told the student: "When you go to work and you pay taxes, imagine paying all that tax to give money to single parents in London who have got three or four black kids.The black kids are going to grow up dysfunctional, low IQ, low achievers that drain our welfare benefits and the prison system and probably go and mug you.

"There have been no great civilisations that have formed in sub-Saharan Africa, no great science. To put it crudely, there's no black Mozart, there's no black Dickens."

The above is written by Dr Stuart Russell GMC Number 2339070 is not subject to General Medical Council proceedings and he never will be....

Source: Guardian

A message from the Priory Knights Templar to Dr Gerry Mccann

A message from the Priory Knights Templar to Gerry Mccann

General Medical Council and the scandal link to the Freemasons

Official website of the Grand Priory of Knights Templar in England and Wales

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More articles discussed at 3 arguidos SCANDAL LINK TO MASONS IN NHS

More than 400 NHS staff in Wales sacked for abuse, theft and fraud

More than 400 NHS staff in Wales have been sacked or suspended in the past two years, according to figures obtained by an assembly member.

The alleged offences involved included abuse of patients, sexual harassment, drug thefts and fraud.

Chris Franks AM warned suspensions for a year or more in some cases put extra pressure on others working in the NHS.

Trusts stressed suspension was a "neutral act" often taken to protect the staff member involved.

The figures, obtained using the Freedom of Information Act (FOI), showed the costs of paying staff while they were suspended was more than £850,000 over two years.

They indicated 78 staff were suspended in 2006/07 and 121 in 2007/08 - a total of 199.
Over the same period there were 87 dismissals in the first year and 115 in the second - 202 altogether.

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Child protection

Cwm Taff NHS Trust response to Mr Franks is understood to broadly reflect the position of trusts as a whole on suspensions.

The trust said: "We would also like to point out that suspension is a neutral act which is often undertaken to protect the individual, it is not an indication of guilt.

"Suspension is not an action that the trust takes lightly and is undertaken in accordance with the Trust Investigation Policy where the decision is based on patient care, other staff or even the individual themselves.

"Suspension also occurs if there is any indication that an investigation could be compromised by the individual remaining in the workplace.

"Redeployment to another area is always considered as the first option.

"Suspension by a manager is always undertaken in conjunction with advice from the Human Resources Department.

"Sometimes suspensions are as a result of a Protection of Children Act or Protection of Vulnerable Adult issue where there may be a police investigation into an allegation.

"This is out of the hands of the trust".

Source: BBC News
Suspended staff 'cost NHS £40m'
Crackdown on NHS suspensions
Doubt over doctor checks
No government cash for competence checks
Tough sanctions proposed for 'failing doctors'
Doctors 'more open about failings'
Suspension system to be reviewed
'Too many' NHS staff suspensions
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My letters of complaint to University Hospitals Leicester and GMC
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FRAUD against the NHS is paid for by all of us. This is the message being delivered as part of a local drive to raise awareness of how to report a fraud you suspect is taking place against the NHS.

Millions of pounds of NHS cash is lost each year because people wrongly claim help with costs for prescriptions, dental treatment, sight tests and glasses or contact lenses.

Source: Chronicle Live


But it's ok for the NHS to steal from taxpayers for what reason? Pay their mortgages in comparison to people wanting life-saving drugs?

A few articles from my Postcode Lottery blog
£30million bill for NHS negligence compensation claims
NHS Trust to spend £400,000 on a yacht
Dentists' give patients pointless check-ups to exploit NHS payouts

General Medical Council takes action over paediatrician who failed Baby P

"A GMC spokesman said: “This doctor is not facing a formal allegation. This is an ongoing investigation. The Interim Order Panel has the power to suspend or restrict a doctor’s practice while an investigation is ongoing. Dr Al-Zayyat has now had her medical licence restricted by the General Medical Council while a complaint against her is investigated. For privacy reasons no details of this complaint can be released. But the conditions mean all Dr Al-Zayyat’s work must be supervised by a consultant and she can only work for the NHS as a middle-grade paediatrician. She is also forbidden from taking up any further locum positions of less than three months. These restrictions are imposed for 18 months or until a Fitness to Practice Hearing, at a date to be decided."

Source: Haringey Independent
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There, that'll teach her for sending home a baby with a broken back and broken ribs saying she couldn't examine him because he was miserable and cranky and probably had a cold.

Wouldn't she be miserable and cranky if she'd got a broken back and ribs? Ok, so maybe she didn't spot the broken back and ribs, or that he was paralysed, but what about Baby P's ear that was torn and hanging from his head?

I wonder if any restrictions have been placed on Dr Gerry McCann? The one who is believed to be involved in the demise and concealment of his own daughter? Who knows though, because as the GMC quite clearly stated in this case "For privacy reasons no details of this complaint can be released".

It would seem no lessons were learned from the Harold Shipman saga but the tragedy is that children and babies are being caught up in their continuing incompetence and disgraceful 'head in sand' approach to child abuse.

Or is it because if they suspended all suspicious and dodgy doctors they'd have very few left?

In 2006 the General Medical Council also allowed another Leicester Royal Infirmary Consultant Paediatrician, Dr Andrew Holton, to continue working despite misdiagnosing and mistreating at least 618 children who were left like 'zombies'.

Mystery of Leicester Mistreated Epilepsy Scandal's "missing children"

Playing the blind eye game

Articles from my Postcode Lottery blog

66 babies in a year left to die after NHS abortions go wrong
Blind, immobilised, diabetic - but the NHS doesn't care
C Diff linked to 300 NHS deaths in 6 months
Cancer test blunder for 70 men
Consultant suspended after 17 patients with cancer wrongly get the all-clear
Did NHS cuts kill Kayleigh Macilwraith-Christie?
Doctors: Let us kill disabled babies
Fatal delay after NHS trust despatched ambulance after 42 minutes to girl laying dying in road
Fury at ambulance cancellation for pacemaker baby
Hospitals infected with vermin
Leicester Royal Infirmary's deadly blunders kill former member of staff
More spent on food for prisoners than NHS patients
More than 100,000 operations cancelled in a year
MRSA kills mother in hospital with ear infection
NHS is leaving patients to die
NHS refused £35,000 operation
NHS scandal: dying cancer victim was forced to pay
NHS should NOT save patients' lives if it costs too much, says watchdog
Nurse accused of murdering 4 elderly patients
Over 50s being neglected in hospital
Senior nurses to be allowed to decide when you die
Shock as dead body left in NHS ward for 7 hours
Thousands of heart patients could be denied life-saving NHS stents treatment 'due to cost'
War hero escapes 6 bullets then gets MRSA in British hospital
Widow may sue NHS over delays in diagnosing husband’s cancer
Woman, 108, told to wait 18 months for hearing aid

Letter to Laura Sugrue, General Medical Council regarding Mr Siddiq

Dear Ms Sugrue

I hope you are well.

I have another query please regarding another doctor.

This query refers to Dr Muhammad Siddiq, The head of the Islamic Medical Association (IMA), who has recently been banned for a year by the GMC for writing a 'spoof' letter to a GP's magazine whilst suffering from intense stress.

I found the details on the BBC News site http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/7707132.stm

Not wishing to condone any inappropriate behaviour by doctors which could undermine public confidence in the GMC or NHS or, indeed, put patients' lives at risk, I wonder if you could please clarify a point in your email to me dated 28 October whereby you stated that the GMC defends doctors Right to Work, particularly when they are suspected of serial child neglect, which led to the disappearance of one of their own children for 18 months (so far) and also the inappropriate and lewd behaviour towards their own children as reported to the police by two doctors and a social worker?

Please can you confirm that writing a 'spoof' letter to a GP's magazine which, presumably, only doctors can read, is considered more worthy of suspension from the medical profession by the GMC than, say, child neglect, staging an abduction, perverting the course of justice, framing an innocent man, or creating a fraudulent fund after British sniffer dogs detected death scent in the childs parent's own apartment and car?

In your email you stated: "Dr McCann’s actions following the disappearance of his daughter are not a matter which is related to his professional capability and fitness to practise. We are therefore unable to take action on your concerns."

In comparison, please can you explain how Mr Siddiq's professional capability, in performing circumcisions and other minor surgery, was affected by the writing of a 'spoof' letter to a GP's magazine, to such an extent that he was banned from his profession without due regard for his Right to Work?

I understand from the BBC News website that Mr Siddiq claimed he could not get a fair hearing, whereas the GMC seem wholly determined not to allow Drs McCann and Payne any hearing at all to establish their fitness to practise or to prevent the GMC/NHS from suffering disrepute regardless of how the public's confidence is affected by their inappropriate behaviour.

I also understand that Mr Andrew Popat chaired that meeting and I wonder if you could now refer my complaint to him as it would seem that neither you, nor the Leicestershire Police, seem willing to answer my very valid concerns.

I believe I have mentioned before that I am publishing all our correspondence on my website and I can inform you that I am contacted by many members of the public including, doctors and nurses, who are outraged at the lack of performance, and discrimination, by the GMC and NHS in this matter.

It does rather seem that the GMC has failed to take Alan Milburn's advice, eight years' ago, where he said he wanted the GMC to carry out a shake-up of its disciplinary procedures to regain the public confidence that was shattered by the disclosures in the Shipman case."

I look forward to hearing from you.

Jill Havern

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My letters of complaint to University Hospitals Leicester and GMC

Is the General Medical Council Fit to Practise?

General Medical Council bans doctor for a year

Homophobic GP banned for a year

The head of the Islamic Medical Association (IMA) has been suspended from medical practice after sending an "offensive and homophobic" letter.

Dr Muhammad Siddiq has been suspended for 12 months over the letter he sent to the GPs' magazine Pulse last July.

He wrote gay people needed the "stick of law to put them on the right path", the General Medical Council was told.

When confronted by Walsall Primary Care Trust, he apologised at first but later wrongly blamed his son, the GMC heard.

The GMC Fitness to Practice panel, sitting in Manchester, was told Dr Siddiq also wrote in the letter that gay people were "the root cause of many sexually-transmitted diseases".

He initially told employer, the Walsall PCT, that he had written the letter due to intense stress and apologised unreservedly.

However, days later, he said his son had written the letter as a "spoof" and he had mistakenly signed it without reading it, the hearing was told.

Dr Siddiq, the IMA president, also told a Pulse journalist he believed gay people "prey on society" and he thought 99% of Muslim GPs shared his views.

The GMC also heard that Dr Siddiq refused to accept the findings of an assessment in April 2007 into his ability to perform minor surgery and had continued to perform circumcisions at the Luqman Medical Centre in Walsall, despite being advised not to.

Andrew Popat, chairing the GMC hearing, called the GP's actions inappropriate and not in the best interests of his patients.

He added that the letter to Pulse was "liable to undermine public confidence in the medical profession and liable to bring the profession into disrepute".

He said: "The panel continues to have concerns regarding Dr Siddiq's insight into his actions."

The ruling took place in Dr Siddiq's absence as he dismissed his barrister last week and left the GMC, claiming he could not receive a fair hearing.

Source BBC News

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Meanwhile, the General Medical Council continues to defend Dr Gerry McCann and Dr David Payne's 'Right to Work' despite serial child neglect and inappropriate and lewd behaviour towards their own children.

I can feel another letter coming on.

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My letters of complaint to University Hospitals Leicester - and GMC

Not only the NHS and GMC dismiss concerns about McCanns - but also Jacqui Smith of the Home Office

In recognition of those who are systematically failing

Madeleine McCann

The letter below was sent by a member of the 3 Arguidos forum to Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith.

From: xxxxxxxxxx
To:public.enquiries@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
mailto:public.enquiries@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 9:58 AM
Subject: FAO Jacqui Smith, Home Secretary: Madeleine McCann Enquiry


Dear Madam

I am a British national living abroad who has concerns regarding some serious allegations made public in Dr Gonçalo Amaral's book " A Verdade da Mentira". These allegations bring into question the role and intentions of British police force and justice authorities during the course of the recent investigation into the case of Madeleine McCann, who disappeared on 3rd May 2007 from Praia da Luz, Algarve.

These allegations are, according to the author of the book, contained in the investigation files of the inquiry now archived by the Portuguese authorities and will be available for consultation by interested parties from mid August.

The allegations include:

a. That British police forces held back for 6 months a witness statement given in UK regarding Dr David Payne and which appears relevant to the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann led by the Portuguese Policia Judicaria.

b. That the Forensic Science Service, Birmingham has produced contradictory interpretations of test results carried out on vestiges found in the apartment and rental car used by the McCann family whilst in the Algarve, and also refused to return some forensic material so that it could be sent for analyses by other international laboratories. Said evidential vestiges were found as a result of searches made by the two specialist South Yorkshire police dogs, Eddie and Keela.

c. That British authorities refused to provide the Portuguese authorities with the medical records of Madeleine McCann as requested within the remit of the rogatory letters.

d. That British authorities
i) did not provide to the Portuguese authorities when requested background information concerning the financial situation of Drs Gerald and Kate McCann
ii) reported that Drs Gerald and Kate McCann did not possess credit or debit cards when asked for the bank records of same.

You may not be aware of the groundswell of opinion which believes that the Drs McCann have received unprecendented assistance from government and business sources. This despite being named by the Policia Judicaria as suspects in their daughter's disappearance. Dr Amaral's allegations would seem to support this view and I am writing to ask for reassurance that the British Authorities are assisting (have assisted) the Policia Judicaria in every way possible to solve this case.

Might I request an acknowledgement of receipt and a response to the above request for information, and also ask that such acknowledgement and response be communicated and delivered to my electronic mail address in the first instance or, failing that, to my postal address given below?

Thanking you for your kind attention

Yours faithfully

xxxxxxxxxxx

xxxxxxx
xxxxxxx
New Zealand

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Letters to Home Office posted on the 3 arguidos here
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REPLY RECEIVED TODAY -

Dear XX XXXX,

Thank you for your email of 4 October to the Foreign Secretary about the case of Madeleine McCann. I have been asked to reply as desk officer responsible for this case at the Foreign and Commonweath Office (FCO).

The British Government remains concerned about the fate of Madeleine. As Madeleine went missing in Portugal, the investigation into her disappearance is being lead by the Portuguese police. UK police forces have provided and are continuing to provide assistance to the Portuguese police.

The British government takes a strong interest in making sure that British nationals in distress abroad can get the right help. I would like to assure you that our consular officials continue to follow Madeleine's case closely and provide assistance to her family as we would for any British national in these circumstances.

Best regards,
xxxx xxxxxxx

Laura Sugrue, Fitness to Practise Directorate, General Medical Council, decides to take no action about Drs McCann and Payne

Dear Ms Havern,

In my first email I said that we cannot investigate criminal matters, not that we cannot take action while there is a police investigation ongoing. In the matter of your complaint, we have considered the information you have provided and have decided not to take any further action. We have forwarded your complaint to Leicestershire Constabulary as they are the relevant agency to consider your information.

We have explained our position in previous correspondence and that position has not changed. We will therefore not engage in further correspondence.

Yours sincerely

Laura Sugrue
Investigation Officer
Fitness to Practise Directorate
Direct Dial: 0161 923 6577
Fax No: 0161 923 6578
Email: lsugrue@gmc-uk.org

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Dear Ms Sugrue

Thank you for the information.

I have another query please. You stated in your first email that the GMC could not take any action when a doctor is the subject of a police investigation. However, I found an article in The Independent dating back to 27 February 2000, which stated "Mr Milburn has told the GMC it has the power to suspend GPs when they are under police investigation, but the GMC is prevaricating."

I quote: "Alan Milburn, the Health Secretary, has privately made plain he wants the GMC to carry out a shake-up of its disciplinary procedures to regain the public confidence that was shattered by the disclosures in the Shipman case."

The article is here: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/scandal-link-to-masons-in-nhs-724599.html and it would seem the information you gave me is incorrect.

Could you please tell me why you are not acting on Mr Milburns authority in that you refuse to suspend two doctors who are, at least, guilty of serial child neglect which has led to the disappearance of one of the children for a period of 19 months, and that both doctors were witnessed by two other doctors and a social worker, as making inappropriate and lewd comments and actions towards their own children. Please can you explain why the GMC is 'prevaricating' in the matter of Doctors McCann and Payne?

Please can you confirm that the GMC is aware of the seriousness of the McCann case and the information from Portugal that the McCanns have instructed their private investigators, Metodo 3, to pay a lawyer representing an already convicted child murderer in an entirely separate court case, to bring down the former police investigator who was removed from Madeleine's case by Gordon Brown. The lawyer has admitted that he was instructed to do this.

Please can you confirm that the GMC condone this type of behaviour from two doctors and is satisfied that they meet the criteria to remain in employment within the NHS?

Could you also please confirm if these doctors are masons?

Could you also please comment on the recent case of Jonathan Ross who was suspended by the BBC Trust for inappropriate behaviour which, in comparison to the inappropriate behaviour of at least two of your doctors, is considerably less serious.

You will find any information you need on my website that will help you answer my questions:
http://gerrymccan-abuseofpower-humanrights.blogspot.com/

Jill Havern

My letters of complaint to University Hospitals Leicester

Madeleine McCann investigation: Leicestershire police officers found watching porn on duty

My letter of complaint to the General Medical Council, regarding the alleged 'pornographic behaviour' of Drs Gerry McCann and David Payne regarding their own children, has been forwarded to Chief Constable, Matt Baggot who was at the centre of this controversy in 2006:

Film shows police 'watching porn'

Police officers who were secretly filmed watching a pornographic video on duty could face disciplinary action.

Leicestershire's Chief Constable Matt Baggott, who has watched a "rough cut" of the Channel Four documentary, has apologised for the behaviour.

Reporter Nina Hobson, a former policewoman, went undercover at the force for a Dispatches programme.

Mr Baggott said: "The footage contained examples of incidents ranging from poor behaviour to unacceptable attitudes."

The chief constable added: "I apologise for the poor behaviour shown in the documentary. And we will accept criticism wherever it is justified.

"I need to be clear that such attitudes and behaviours have no place in a modern professional police service.

"They also do not represent what is the 'norm' in the Leicestershire Constabulary.

"We will take firm but proportionate action to deal with issues raised."

Pornographic video

A force spokeswoman said this meant the officers involved could be disciplined.

The film shows male officers watching a pornographic video late at night whilst on duty.

Ms Hobson said her four-month investigation also exposed derelictions of duty, including officers on patrol playing "hide-and-seek" in their cars and fetching takeaways while pretending to be busy.

Mr Baggott said he was disappointed the documentary portrayed "a very small group of targeted individuals" as being representative of his force.

Ms Hobson, who is unemployed after leaving the force, has defended her decision to be a whistleblower.

'Absolutely disgusting'

The 35-year-old mother-of-two, from Norfolk, first became a police officer in 1990.

She left 11 years later before rejoining in March 2005.

She would not reveal how much she was paid for her investigation, but admitted her foray into journalism had ended her police career.

"I had a career in the police force and I became disillusioned, not with the officers necessarily but with the organisation," she said.

Commenting on the actions of the officers watching the video she said: "I think it's absolutely disgusting."

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Source: BBC News
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Links:

It would also seem that Paulo Reis (Gazeta Digital) sent an email to Matt Baggot on 15 September 2007, and got no response:

A few questions to Mr. Matt Baggott, Chief Constable of Leicestershire Police:

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Sir Michael Lyons: In the BBC "there are consequences for inappropriate behaviour"

Not so in the NHS or GMC though.

"BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons has called for tighter editorial controls after the obscene phone-calls furore.

He appeared to welcome the resignation of Radio 2 controller Lesley Douglas, saying it was fitting for those with responsibility to be held to account. But he said the obscene comments were "completely unacceptable" and should not have been made in the first place.

Some people have called for the sacking of star presenter Jonathan Ross, who has been suspended without pay for three months, costing him around £1.5 million. Together with Brand, he left messages on Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs' answerphone in which they said Brand had slept with his granddaughter, Georgina Baillie."

My letters of complaint to University Hospitals Leicester
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Sleeping Around: Defending Georgina
By Catherine Townsend of The Independent

I'm shocked at some of the comments directed at Georgina Baillie, the burlesque dancer and glamour model at the heart of the Jonathan Ross/Russell Brand controversy, because she's now doing a bit of publicity for herself and discussing Brand's proclivity for Fawlty Towers dialogue in the bedroom.

Frankly, I don't blame her for being upset, nor for trying to make the best of a bad situation. Her lifestyle is totally irrelevant - whether the girl is a stripper or a nun, Brand didn't have the right to call her grandfather and leave lewd and obscene messages about her sex life. Still, I can't believe the whole thing has gotten so blown out of proportion: The financial world is in total meltdown and the Satanic Sluts are at the top of the news agenda. Even during a credit crunch, sex sells and people need a distraction.

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Some headlines surrounding this scandal:

Challenging times for director-general
BBC crisis talks over scandal
'Shameful Ross Lost Boss Her Job'
Call for tighter BBC controls
Radio chief Lesley Douglas out as BBC scrambles to end crisis

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Now let's compare this situation to that of two NHS doctors, Gerry and Kate McCann.

Ross and Brand made an obscene phone call to two adults in the entertainment business. The BBC Trust has acted immediately and people have lost their jobs.

The McCanns regularly abandoned their children until one went missing, presumed dead; staged an abduction, framed an innocent man, perverted the course of justice and created a fraudulent fund.

The NHS Trust and General Medical Council defend the McCanns' 'Right to Work' and refuse to answer questions.

Some headlines surrounding the McCann scandal:

Kate and Gerry McCann's friends win £375,000 libel damages
Kate and Gerry McCann win £500,000 libel damages
Gerry McCann returns to work after being made 'Arguido'

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Anorak: The Madeleine McCann Location Device And Finding Brand And Ross

Medical Director, Dr Allan Cole, UHL Trust quickly adopts Pact of Silence

24 October 2008

Dear Dr Cole

Thank you for passing my concerns to your Legal Affairs department.

It is unfortunate that I apparently misinterpreted your comment about 'risk' and I assume you will say I have misinterpreted your statement that you do not consider the employment of these two doctors to carry any more risk than any other healthcare professional in the Trust.

From your statement that these two doctors pose no more risk than any other healthcare professional could be construed that ALL healthcare professionals have some skeletons in their closet of this nature. I could mention Harold Shipman, Beverly Allit, Colin Norris or even your own doctor who killed a member of your own staff http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/Hospital-apologises-blunders/article-343750-detail/article.html.

The issues I have outlined in my concerns which you, as Medical Director, will not help me with, relates to two doctors at your hospital - one who is believed to be involved in the demise and concealment of his own daughter, involved in staging an abduction, framing an innocent man and creating a fraudulent fund. The other doctor, David Payne, has been reported to Leicestershire police, as has Gerry McCann, for making sexual remarks and lewd gestures about their own children. This report was made to the police by two doctors and is available on the files that the Portuguese police has released into the public domain. Either the other two doctors who reported McCann and Payne are liars or they aren't. If they are liars then they have abused their position of trust by lying to the police. If they are not liars then their allegations about McCann and Payne must be true and McCann and Payne have broken their position of trust. Doctors are supposed to be amongst the professionals the public are supposed to trust.

Either way you look at it there is a bunch of doctors in the NHS who have broken their strict Code of Conduct and position of trust and have brought the NHS into disrepute - this can only get worse. Further, the UHL/NHS condones this appalling behaviour by continuing to employ these doctors, whilst they're still under suspicion, and also they condone negligence and fraud by linking the official hospital website directly to the fraudulent Fund. This is a matter of public concern which you are washing your hands of. Indeed, your stubborness to retain the link to the fraudulent fund endorses your commitment to fraud.

There is also the matter that the McCanns have publicly admitted that they left all their children alone every night in an unlocked apartment until the worst happened, despite Kate McCanns admission in The Sun newspaper that she had a bad feeling about the holiday and felt her family was being watched. Despite those feelings they still abandoned their children. In fact, all the other doctors did the same - you will be aware that one child was vomiting. I believe she was just a baby. The parents say they were checking their children every 30 minutes but, as doctors, they will know that a fatal incident can occur in less time than this, particularly a baby who is vomiting. This is gross negligence that the NHS is condoning. If these doctors can treat their own children in this horrendous manner, what hope is there for their patients? Are you saying that, because you have put measures in place, which you won't disclose, that their patients would be treated better than their own children? The scandal of the Postcode Lottery would dispute that and it just so happens I have a blog about that too http://nhspostcodelottery.blogspot.com/.

You may well ask why I feel so outraged about the state of the NHS. Well, my former husband, xxxx xxxxxxxx, was deliberately misdiagnosed by Sir Professor Peter Bell of Leicester Royal Infirmary and I have a blog about that too http://nhsdeathrow.blogspot.com/. In fact, I wrote a book about it. He was sent home to die by a Knighted professor which ultimately turned out to be criminally wrong. This saga ruined our marriage and livelihoods and was not addressed by the NHS or Healthcare Commission or the Ombudsman, so I am well aware of how everyone closes ranks to protect each other as you are doing now.

As with this complaint, that one also got nowhere despite a persons life being at the heart of the issue - but then this complaint also has a person at its heart, a person called Madeleine McCann who was only three years old. It is one matter to cover up the negligence of a 52 year old, but a three year old is something else. When a child is denied justice then it is time to act. A crime against a child is the worst possible scenario, particularly when that crime is committed by her own parents, which is why so many people are seeking the truth. Despite threats from lawyers we will not give up. You will be aware that Goncalo Amaral's dog was killed with a serious head injury as a threat and that Sergei Malinka's car was torched as a threat to him.

The truth of what happened to Madeleine McCann will eventually come out. There are many people, including myself, who are shocked and outraged about what happened to her, and the obvious intention to prevent the truth being known. You will know that the Portuguese Chief Inspector, Goncalo Amaral, who was removed from the investigation by Gordon Brown, has written a book and is making a documentary. It is only a matter of time before it becomes public knowledge here in the UK and the NHS will not be able to say they were unaware of the circumstances surrounding the tragic demise of this little girl who no longer has a voice. The people who are protecting the McCanns have Maddie's blood on their hands and you should all be ashamed or your Pact of Silence and your threats of sending valid concerns to your legal affairs department.

The NHS is funded by the taxpayer, of which I am one, and this is a matter of public concern and I would like some answers please.

Jill Havern

Dear Dr Cole

Thank you for your email.

I note you state "the Trust has taken all appropriate measures to ensure that the public and patients are not put at any additional risk".

I am pleased you have acknowledged that there is some risk, as you have stated people are not put at any "additional" risk. Please can you confirm what measures you have taken? Please can you also confirm what risks you are aware of.

You also state that you are not aware of any fraudulent activity. I believe this statement is naive because the Portuguese police have released their findings of the investigation on a DVD, which is easily available, and on that DVD it clearly shows the evidence of two British sniffer dogs which detected the scent of Maddie's death in the McCanns apartment and hire car. Given that the police believe Maddie is dead and the fund was set up to find a 'live' Madeleine, would confirm that the Fund is, in fact, fraudulent. How can they find a 'live' Madeleine when she is dead? Why are they continuing to appeal for public money in this case? And why is UHL endorsing this fraudulent fund and encouraging members of the public to donate to this fraudulent fund?

If you haven't seen the DVD video of the British sniffer dogs, it is here on my website where I am also publishing all correspondence with UHL and the GMC. You will find evidence from the Portuguese police DVD etc.

http://gerrymccan-abuseofpower-humanrights.blogspot.com/

Jill Havern

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Now that UHL have adopted the Pact of Silence and referred my complaint to the Legal Affairs department, it would be interesting to be a....



Previous letter to Dr Allan Cole
All letters to UHL and GMC
UHL link to fraudulent fund
Inoperable Discharge Summary signed by Sir Professor Peter Bell, LRI

Email from Sir Professor Peter Bell, LRI, giving me names of surgeons who could do the 'impossible' operation - dated 13 months after the wrong prognosis.

My letter to the Prime Minister
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Discussions at The 3 Arguidos
University Hospitals Leicester: Payne & McCann
Response from General Medical Council regarding McCann...
Recent visit to Praia da Luz -
David Payne?