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Dr Webberley’s fitness to practise is impaired by reason of misconduct and conviction
Dr Webberley failed to recognise that the treatment she provided to Patients A and B carried significant risks for them if, for any reason, either did not communicate with her for further prescriptions. [He said that] it was wrong of Dr Webberley to not have in place a proper and reliable follow-up system and by not having one, she put Patients A and B at unwarranted risk of harm
Dr Webberley, despite being advised by HIW to cease treating patients, continued to do so for some 11 months, before she stopped following her conviction
Dr Webberley had failed to demonstrate to the Tribunal’s satisfaction that she had developed insight into the concerns identified in this case
Dr Webberley’s pattern of serious misconduct, combined with evidence of avoidance of regulation, give rise to a real risk of repetition in the future, with consequent serious risks to patient safety and that the profession will be brought into disrepute. Mr Jackson submitted that, in the light of Dr Webberley’s lack of insight into her duties regarding registration, her incomplete remediation, and her overt efforts to avoid regulation, there remains a serious and obvious risk of repeated serious misconduct in the future
Mr Stern said that the Tribunal should take into account that Dr Webberley had a ‘heavy workload’ of patients, and that she was unable to identify or secure any further training to increase her understanding of and improve her practice.
the Tribunal found Dr Webberley’s fitness to practise impaired on public protection grounds
Mr Stern said that it cannot be ignored that Dr Webberley was an impressive doctor who had studied extensively in the field of gender dysphoria and who had gone to great lengths to provide good care and treatment to her patients. He submitted that the public would not only understand but respect Dr Webberley for the way she had acted. He added that it is hard to imagine what would have become of those patients if Dr Webberley had stopped treating them. He reminded the Tribunal of Patient A’s evidence. He submitted that the approach Dr Webberley took in relation to treating patients whilst not registered was life-saving. She had probably prevented suicides and self-harming.
the Tribunal did not consider that Dr Webberley has developed sufficient understanding as to the significance of how she failed Patient C ...It therefore determined that her fitness to practise is impaired by reason of her misconduct
Dr Webberley needs to demonstrate to a Medical Practitioner’s Tribunal that she has developed the necessary insight and remediation to enable it to conclude that there is no risk of repetition
She ought not to have plunged into developing an independent online agency without appropriate thought and reflection and preparation. 181. A conviction is a serious matter for a member of the medical profession. 182. The Tribunal finds that Dr Webberley’s fitness to practise is impaired by reason of her conviction.
Dr Webberley was in a very difficult position. Her cohort of patients, who numbered up to 2,000, according to the letter from GIRES, had nowhere else to go. Dr Chaand Nagpaul CBE, the Chair, BMA General Practitioners Committee had written to Professor Terence Stephenson, the Chair of Council, GMC on 12 May 2016 expressing concerns about GPs assuming a role of prescribers in the context of transgender healthcare, which for most GPs was unfamiliar territory. Even if GPs were prepared to issue bridging prescriptions, that would not deliver long term treatment. These patients were an extremely vulnerable group who had turned to Dr Webberley since they were unable to receive treatment from GIDS on the NHS
She'll have to undergo a review to prove she has learned a lesson before her license to practise is reinstated, is that correct?
Sounds to me mostly that there is nobody else willing to prescribe un-evidenced treatments to children, so the buck is being passed to her.
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