GMC REFUSES TO WEAR THE BACONETTE SUIT

The CEO of iwantgreatcon.org in his new suit

Jobbing Doctor is far more intelligent and dishier than Neil Bacon. Everyone knows that. So Jobbing Doctor wrote about the iwantgreatcare meltdown some days ago.

The journalists at Pulse uncovered some excellent documentation. Essentially, Pulse points out that the GMC told Neil Bacon off. I have to say that the GMC paid an inordinate amount of interest to our meltdown of Neil's thoughtless terms and conditions. Essentially, Neil misleads the rest of the world. He even misleads the world on other aspects.

Technically, the GMC should have taken Neil Bacon down the GMC steps but being good mates, Finlay decided to just write to Neil.

Pulse stated :-

The GMC’s chief executive, Finlay Scott, wrote to Dr Neil Bacon, the website’s founder, shortly after its launch, requesting amendments to the site.

‘In the guidance to doctors section, it is suggested that feedback facilitated by the site will help doctors meet ‘GMC requirements for revalidation’,’ wrote Mr Scott. ‘As it stands, I think this is potentially misleading and it would helpful if you would arrange for early and appropriate modification of the relevant text.’

A GMC staff member later reported that all mention of the GMC had been removed from the site, although he warned: ‘It is possible that a canny journalist or doctor will spot these modifications and suspect some kind of intervention on our part.’

In an email to a colleague in external relations in early July, he said he agreed with a complaint received from a doctor.

‘To be honest, I agree with [Name removed],’ he wrote. ‘The site was indeed untested and as such perhaps we shouldn’t have promoted it, but this was a piece that Graeme ‘offered’.’

So let us observe the guidance on dishonesty at the GMC. This is what it states

Dishonesty

43. The GMC's guidance, Good Medical Practice states that registered doctors must be honest and trustworthy, and must avoid abusing their position as a doctor. It also states, under the heading of ‘probity':

“- You must be honest in financial and commercial dealings with employers, insurers and other organisations or individuals…

- …If you manage finances, you must make sure that the funds are used for the purpose for which they are intended and are kept in a separate account from your personal finances.” (Paragraph 54).

44. Dishonesty, even where it does not result in direct harm to patients but is for example related to the doctor's private life, is particularly serious because it undermines the trust the public place in the profession. Examples of dishonesty in professional practice could include defrauding an employer, improperly amending patient records or submitting or providing false references, inaccurate or misleading information on a CV and failing to take reasonable steps to ensure that statements made in formal documents are accurate. The Privy Council has emphasised that: ‘…Health Authorities must be able to place complete reliance on the integrity of practitioners; and the Committee is entitled to regard conduct which undermines that confidence as calculated to reflect on the standards and reputation of the profession as a whole.' 12 [Footnote 12: Dr Shiv Prasad Dey v General Medical Council (Privy Council Appeal No. 19 of 2001).]

45. Research misconduct is a further example. The term is used to describe a range of misconduct from presenting misleading information in publications to dishonesty in clinical drugs trials. Such behaviour undermines the trust that both the public and the profession have in medicine as a science, regardless of whether this leads to direct harm to patients. Because it has the potential to have far reaching consequences, this type of dishonesty is particularly serious.

Finlay Scott is essentially telling the world that a doctor like Neil Bacon can be misleading to the public and he simply gets a " Hi Neil, Can you Correct these slight errors please and we can forgive you".

It is important to understand that Neil Bacon is treated unlike any other doctor. Any other person propagating purportedly misleading information is taken down the GMC steps. In fact, golden balls Bacon seems to be immune to any such investigation at all. That is because Neil Bacon has a special pink suit that protects him from any GMC investigation. The rest of us though have had to go through many GMC investigations courtesy of Neil Bacon and his influence at the GMC. Brian Keighley, the resident Doctors Only Website sniffer dog - take a bow.