"Niall Dickson, Chief Executive of the GMC says in a statement, “This is a distressing report that reveals significant failings at Mid-Staffordshire Trust. The report highlights a number of very serious issues about the quality of patient care, including concerns about the conduct and performance of some doctors working at the Trust.“The Medical Director has referred several doctors to the GMC and we are working closely with the hospital to ensure that we have the information we require to investigate and, if necessary, to suspend or restrict their practice during the investigation.”
Mr Dickson added “The report does raise questions about how doctors and other professionals respond when they see poor quality care.
Dickson has lost the plot. So if doctors raise concerns they are harassed [ as I was], the GMC shows no regret. If you don't raise concerns for fear of being harassed, the GMC investigates you anyway. What did these doctors ever do to warrant referral to the General Medical Council? The GMC makes it unsafe to raise concerns then punishes those doctors for protecting themselves. This is scapegoating in the extreme. The doctors are now taking the flack for government and Trust failures.
Anyhow, the good defence for the Mid Staffordshire doctors is that the GMC took no action against all doctors who walked past Ward 87 and failed to take notice of its failures. In the end though while junior supervision was a consultants responsibility, the rest of it happened due to management failures. No manager was disciplined despite two damning reports.
I personally think the GMC is losing its duster. Niall Dickson continues to live up to the first part of his surname.
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