Dr Michael Webberley

A solid piece from the Mail. I look forward to seeing similar in the Guardian...?

So presumably that could be a ground of appeal, though presumably only if a possible legal flaw in how they went about it? I don't get the impression, though, that he is likely to appeal.

GenderGP are saying the same thing. From the determination, the defence applied to have the tribunal adjourned, but this was refused. The reasons for this are recorded in Annex A. The reasons for going ahead without him are in Annex B. Frustratingly I can't find either of those in the determiantion!

Gender GP are advertising for an Executive Assistant on LinkedIn so they're still going.

Yes, absolutely @MagnoliaTaint!

It will be interesting to see how the heavily TRA influenced BMJ report this. I see the BBC is silent. Struck off doctors are normally big news

That is what I though, but if so that is an odd thing for HW to say. I wonder if there is more to it.

It takes such a lot of effort to get into medical school, to keep passing the exams, to get onto specialist training programmes, to get your first consultant post and to keep going through all the challenges a medical career throws at you until finally you reach retirement age and after a brief rest, if you want, go back and do some locum work as and when it suits you. All thrown away because after retiring from the NHS ex-Dr W appears to have ignored everything he must have learned in the course of a long career as a gastroenterologist, and taken on some of the most complex and vulnerable patients any doctor will ever see, young kids and teenagers who needed specialist help from child psychiatrists, child psychologists and possibly paediatric endocrinologists. He had no training in any of those areas but prescribed for them anyway and didn't bother much about record-keeping. It's a shocking dereliction of duty. I'm very relieved by the verdict, and the DM reporting on it.

I think he choose not to attend the hearing.

Am a bit confused. HW seems to be saying that he was not given the opportunity to defend himself. Is that right? Was that because he was in hospital and they wouldn't move the hearing, or something else? Or was it somehow connected with his decision to opt for voluntary removal rather than tribunal?

Headalines from Mail Online article:

Doctor is struck off for prescribing sex change drugs via private 'online GenderGp clinic' to seven transgender patients including a child aged NINE and a teen who later took their own life - without 'proper tests or consent'

Dr Michael Webberley doled out sex-change treatments to seven young patients

The consultant prescribed puberty blockers and hormones via GenderGP clinic

He has now been struck off after an investigation by a MD tribunal service panel

One patient was aged just nine, and another teenage patient committed suicide

Ian Leonard for Mail Online:

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10854047/Doctor-struck-prescribing-sex-change-drugs-private-online-GenderGp-clinic.html

Or even reported at all...

Wow. This needs to be big news - I wonder if it will be accurately reported?

Tribunal not trial, fat fingers.

Absolutely damning. With children making up the majority of patients he treated and put at risk of serious harm. Hopefully this will make the mainstream press as people are seriously beginning to wake up to what this toxic "right side of history" looks like.

I thought he offered voluntary removal because a) he hoped it would stop the trial and b) it would make it easier for him to continue to operate his gender clinics outside the UK .

Wow that is some judgement

the right side of history looks more shaky every day

To appeal he'd have to establish that the decision was wrong in law, or no reasonable panel could have made it. This is unlikely when you haven't turned up for your hearing!

In theory he can apply to be reinstated in five years, but he'd have to demonstrate that he'd fully addressed all the panel's concerns and was safe to practice. Again, unlikely.

Fuck me that is damning indeed. Finally people are starting to see the actual harm he and his colleagues have inflicted on vulnerable young children.

Reading the determination, then re-reading her recent comment (a reminder below as I think they're buried in a longer article) shows so clearly how this ideology is so fucking blinkered and brainwashing. It's so harmful.

"My heart and soul goes out to my husband. While he was in hospital today having a big operation, he was sent the damning list of proven allegations that the GMC have found against him.
'He hasn’t been able to tell his side of the story and he wasn’t able to be represented or to ask experts who truly understand the needs of trans people.
'I know that he has helped so many trans people, and I know that you will wish him well in his retirement. He has served the NHS for a long and hard career.
'His patients have always loved him, as I do"

Could they face any criminal charges following this determination, does anyone know?

GenderGP has ensured it will continue, I'm sure.

Now, what about HW

I think the next stage of her hearing is in June at some point.

Just came on to post this. Thank heavens. Sanity prevails and people are protected. Now, what about HW and GenderGP itself?

I think he has opportunity to appeal firstly, but once the time for that has elapsed, he will be unable to practise medicine in the UK.

After five years, he could apply to be reinstated, but he would have to evidence that he meets various criteria. Maybe a third of such applications are successful.

Yes erasure = struck off.