Dr Michael Webberley

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• haven't had a chance to keep an eye on his tribunal, but from what I'm reading:

'Dr Michael Webberley applied for voluntary erasure from the GMC register. The Tribunal say it is "unfortunate" that was not determined prior to the hearing today.

MW had two requests for postponement declined & has now provided new medical evidence for an adjournment'

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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.

Tribunal not trial, fat fingers.

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

Or even reported at all...

Ian Leonard for Mail Online:

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

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

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?

I think he choose not to attend the hearing.

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.

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 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

Yes, absolutely @MagnoliaTaint!

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

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!

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.

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

Bottom feeding grifters, him and his grim wife. Where is the statement from Mermaids? How many of those patients were sent his way by them?

This makes me so fucking angry. It doesn't take a genius that money is behind this unnecessary medicalisation of children, but to see the sharks exposed like this, just what they do to those poor kids to keep the money rolling in.

They should be locked up, both of them, and never allowed near a kid ever again.

Messiah complex

You're retiring anyway so what can the profession do? It will take them a while to strike you off and in the meantime you can supplement your retirement pot....

Messiah complex

Money

Well good. He tried everything to prevent that tribunal going ahead and it was his choice not to be represented or provide a rebuttal. GenderGP will DARVO all over the place but I cannot imagine there is any coming back from that in terms of appeal, unless he finds an obscure point in law that is wrong.

Thank you.

Epic thread on this from Malcolm Clark:

twitter.com/TwisterFilm/status/1529685315572596736

Unrolled:

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1529685315572596736.html

It's also in the Telegraph today on the front page (online, not print)

i hope this makes people really think about mermaids. Green was recommending Helen Webberley even after her suspension. And now with Michael Webberley being struck off surely the reasons for their entire existence needs scrutiny.

Running a charity for children, a large part of which is all about their healthcare, has to be above reproach. Recommending dodgy doctors in the teeth of public challenge isn't a good look.