Finlay Scott. CBE For Keeping A Convicted Serial Killer on the GMC Register

Hanging Out With the Right Lizards

The problem with cornflakes is that I keep choking on it each time I read the antics of the establishment. Jobbing Doctor tells me that Finlay Scott has been given a CBE for "public service". This is not unexpected of course because he has " sucked up" to Liam Donaldson, sold out the medical profession and told Dame Janet Smith that " It ain't my fault gov, its the doctors fault". Of course, by "public service" I wonder if the government means this " Mr Scott has negligently allowed Dr Harold Shipman to practise for many years. Dr Shipman killed patient after patient following the GMC's errors". Perhaps "public service" means decreasing the UK's population through a serial killer.

We all know the government decides who gets the honours and we also know that Finlay Scott's services to the government has been perfect. Scotty has been the lapdog of the government for quite sometime now.

We can only blame Finlay Scott for the fact that a convicted serial killer remained on the medical register for a few weeks because the GMC had no way of suspending him or striking him off. Indeed, the GMC or the government did not even instigate an alert letter against Harold Shipman earlier on in his career. The Shipman Inquiry criticised the GMC.

The GMC allowed Harold Shipman to continue practising despite drug issues early on in his career. This is what the Inquiry stated

"6.195 My main criticism is that the GMC failed to give adequate protection to the public when dealing with the cases of doctors who had been convicted of offences arising out of an addiction to controlled drugs"

I don't see the sentence " The medical profession failed to give adequate protection to the public". The buck stops at the GMC yet the GMC was never revalidated or held accountable for any of the misdemeanors they have caused.

Finlay Scott has handed the medical profession to the government on a plate. He was responsible for some of the largest medical scandals in the history of medicine. The blame for serial killer Harold Shipman stops with Donald Irvine and Finlay Scott. No one else is to blame.

Of course, now we note that the entire medical profession will be placed on the revalidation operating table and dissected into small pieces. Finlay Scott will never be revalidated because he isn't held accountable. Both Finlay Scott and Donald Irvine have positioned themselves as "patient saviours" to deflect from their incompetence and the fact the blame for these scandals can only be laid at their door. To save their Bacon, Irvine sold the profession out and Finlay followed in his footsteps. Of course, these two men have never cared about patient welfare. Patient welfare is simply a ruse in their armoury to use and abuse and obtain their positions in high places.

Other scandals to Scott's name are the memo admission that " the GMC got it wrong" in the case of R v GMC Ex Parte Toth. Then there was the Richard Neale scandal. The list goes on of course. Then there are those that remain silent and those doctors who have been failed by the General Medical Council for raising patient concerns.

For avoidance of doubt, it was Finlay Scott who sanctioned the discreet inquiry that took place for more than one year. The investigation was done without my knowledge and out of procedure.

For his conduct, Harris HHJ dubbed the GMC a " totalitarian regime". It was Finlay Scott who placed hundreds of patients at risk on Ward 87 because of the mismanagement of that whistleblowing complaint. I should know because I was there.

Finlay Scott is solely responsible for numerous violations of human rights within GMC Towers, not just concerning patients but also concerning doctors.

I felt Finlay deserved this excellent dedication write up of his work to " public services". This is the write up the government does not want the world to see and Finlay Scott does not want the world to know about.

The CBE also answers the question as to why he rejected Remedy UK's calls to investigate Liam Donaldson. It his close association with Liam Donaldson that has achieved the CBE. For Scott, it is important to play with the right lizards in the right cesspit . An anonymous poster on Jobbing Doctor stated " Finlay Scott also has served on the board of the PMETB who have hardly covered themselves in glory since the inception of MTAS and MMC.".

Public Safety is Finlay Scott's last concern. So essentially, if anyone wants a New Years Honours, keep a serial killer on the register, that is a surefire way to ensure you are called Sir Finlay Scott.

Scott's fabulous quote is as follows

"transparency was like a greenhouse - you could look in but not enter the room"

A word from Dr Richard Coleman on how Finlay Scott achieved his current status.

The internal whistleblower at the GMC who describes the manner in which Finlay Scott et al works.

The issue concerned a report which was quite lax, contained factual errors but was very influential. The doctor concerned questioned the quality of that report. Richard Coleman had asked whether he could see the papers which went to the screener of the case. Finlay Scott had said that Richard Coleman was acting as the doctor's advocate. Richard Coleman was a member of the council and had legitimate concerns about the process. He was not questioning the substantive decision, just teasing away at the process. Later a handbook had come out giving guidance on how the screeners should and could conduct their enquiries. This was not done sufficiently rigorously in this case.

Doctors were being scapegoated to engineer political and public opinion by the PCC and that seemed unjust to Richard Coleman

The issue concerned a report which was quite lax, contained factual errors but was very influential. The doctor concerned questioned the quality of that report. Richard Coleman had asked whether he could see the papers which went to the screener of the case. Finlay Scott had said that Richard Coleman was acting as the doctor's advocate. Richard Coleman was a member of the council and had legitimate concerns about the process. He was not questioning the substantive decision, just teasing away at the process. Later a handbook had come out giving guidance on how the screeners should and could conduct their enquiries. This was not done sufficiently rigorously in this case.

"Richard Coleman had been refused access to the papers, although he had asked about three times. So in the end, Richard Coleman had had to write to the doctor concerned and say that he could not help him. The excuses which Finlay Scott had given were not strong. Richard Coleman had sat on a case concerning a psychiatrist's report on a nurse, where the doctor concerned and put in something, in good faith, which turned out not to be true. That doctor had got hauled up to a hearing even though he had had no intention to deceive. That had struck Richard Coleman as being a similar case. This had all led Richard Coleman to begin to question things more. He realised that there was a barrier between him as a member and what the GMC wanted him to know. Finlay Scott had once told him that transparency was like a greenhouse - you could look in but not enter the room. To RC, that was not transparency at all" Dr Richard Coleman [ GMC Committee member]"

In my view, Finlay Scott should have resigned from the General Medical Council. His incompetence has never been held accountable in any forum. He has cleverly deflected the blame for the medical scandals from him to the medical profession. While the medical profession has been under the microscope, Mr Scott has wallowed in his new found " patient saviour" image. Image of course is everything for a man like Finlay Scott.

While he lounges with the right lizards, junior and senior doctors are trapped in revalidation and relicensing. Of course, the person who should be revalidated every month is Finlay Scott himself. Without that, the next Harold Shipman will never be caught.

An interesting link is Labours part in the cash for honours scandal.