@drcmday watched GMC v Bawa-Garba in High Court and has written a blog about the way the GMC chose to argue the case against a junior doctor convicted of manslaughter for a medical error in the context of multiple system failures & errors from other staff
http://54000doctors.org/blogs/whose-interests-are-the-gmc-really-trying-to-serve-in-the-bawa-garba-case.html …
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I’ve been around long enough to qualify as a cynical old mare. I imagine a black Muslim female dr who failed in her duty to save a cute white child is doomed in the ‘court of public opinion’. Which the GMC is obliged to take account of, under the euphemism ‘public confidence’
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That would almost smack of deferring to mob rule. I sincerely hope there's something more lawfully robust than just appeasing a crowd behind such cases. Especially one as unpleasant as that might imply.
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Doubt there’s any robust legal definition of what “Maintaining Public Confidence” actually is, or should involve.
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Well whatever definition GMC chose to work by, you'd at least like to think they would be applying it uniformly. This suggests they haven't done that.
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Unless maintaining uniformity is one of the officially stated priorities, I’m not sure they could prioritise it. They have certain statutory duties. Including ‘protecting public confidence’.http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/your-practice/regulation/doctors-to-be-scapegoated-under-gmc-fitness-to-practise-plans-says-gerada/20008412.article …
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I'll be honest, what they're objecting to there doesn't read much differently to the definition of 'fit & proper person' I had to adhere to every year in a different regulated environment. Nobody died if someone screwed up in my regulated world, yet similar benchmark.
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Agree ‘promoting and maintaining public confidence’ is on a par with ‘fit and proper person’. But, tbh, I’d say they’re equally undefinable. As a self employed GP I have to be both the above. Similarly vague ‘green socks’ clauses used to be frowned on.http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/home/finance-and-practice-life-news/partners-increasingly-allowed-to-dismiss-partners-for-wearing-green-socks/20030464.article …
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