General Medical Council Fails to Sack Convicted paedophile Doctor

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The GMC would very much like to be able to erase doctors automatically if they have been convicted of serious crimes. The 1983 Medical Act prevents them from doing that. Lobby your MP for legislative change. Write to Jez Hunt.

And, much as expected, having checked the GMC register, he was indeed struck off.

But @CountessOfStrathearn that's not as good a thread title as 'Doctors regulatory body protects patients after going through correct procedure' does it?

He looks a total creep? Should be locked up forever in my opinion and should never be allowed to be within a mile of any patients. But let's watch the judicial system fail yet again!

Yeah! Sack all the creepy looking doctors!

It’s not the judicial system. It’s his profession’s regulatory body going through the correct procedure, which takes time.

Iirc, that other well known creepy looking bloke, shipman, wasn’t officially struck off by the gmc until a fair while after he was imprisoned.

It seems to be that they deal with the sacking and criminal issues first. Presumably if a court finds them innocent, the gmc has nothing to investigate. They can’t yank a license on what someone is accused of. So once a decision has been made into guilt, then they start proceedings to decide whether the crime warrants loss of medical license.

Exactly the sort of idiotic, fact free MN thread that's commonplace. Why bother to check some facts and do some research before coming to idiotic conclusions when you can just post a thread on MN indicating your outrage?

As others have pointed out, he was erased from the GMC's medical register following a hearing on the day the thread went up. The erasure will be complete following an appeals process, which is normal legal process in all tribunal situations. The information is easily accessible on the GMC site.

OP, next time think before you type.

Again not making any comment on this case but irked by the apparent ignorance of the OP/initial commenters.

The GMC is not a publicly funded organisation although I think it should be. If you are going start a thread perhaps base it on facts rather general outrage mongering.

so the only gripe here is that the GMC process takes a while and didn't start until after he was convicted?

And it didn't really take that long, he was only convicted in April 2017 (not last year as some reports suggested). The GMC will usually wait till after conviction to tell a doctor what allegation is made against them, in this case the allegation was that he was convicted of a serious crime. But a doctor could potentially still have to face a hearing even if found not guilty in court, if there is some other conduct issue involved (eg, their defence at trial was, I didn't do the robbery, I was conducting an affair with my patient at the time). None of the evidence can be used by the GMC before a criminal trial conclude, for obvious reasons.

Doctors aren’t humans too?^^

Why do jealous ? Get some job let the court do their job.people taking law into their hands is crime in itself.would you say the same thing if your son was paedo?