GMC in Racism Scandal

Colour Sensitive

Everyone knows about my meeting with Paul Philip during Mediation in 2004. It was much like a surreal episode of V. I had half expected him to whip his facial skin off to expose who he really was. For the entire four hours we discussed issues of discontent, Paul Philip didn't blink. This is the reason, all three of us came out of the room and uttered the words "Snake Eyes". Since then, we have always referred to Paul Philip as Snake Eyes. It is vital to have pet names for GMC officials because no one takes them seriously anyway. Paul though takes himself very seriously. He also loves and adores the media.

Since the dawn of time, Philip has made some howling mistakes at GMC Towers. So this week he pattered off to the Telegraph and the Daily Mail who ran an anti spin story about the high probability of foreign qualified doctors being hanged by the General Medical Council. The GMC wants to paint the picture that foreign doctors are not as good as British trained doctors. Shall we say they just remain silent while being quite happy for the media to demonise foreign doctors. Running that tale of woe to the public is convenient for the GMC. Firstly, the public start by demonising foreign doctors and secondly, the GMC puff their chests up and pretend that they are acting in the public's interest. What is interesting about this entire scenario is that the worst doctor of them all was Dr Jane Barton, a serial diamorphine injector who is Oxford trained and ended the lives of many people. This doctor was not foreign qualified but then the GMC didn't strike her off. There are some perks to being Christopher Bulstrode's sister.

The Telegraph stated

Those who are not trained in this country are almost three times more likely to have been told that they can no longer practise medicine here, according to the statistics, from the General Medical Council (GMC).

To maintain his position, Paul Philip told the Telegraph

"Paul Philip, Director of Standards and Fitness to Practise of the GMC, said: “we have seen an increasing number of referrals to our fitness to practise procedures from employers and other public authorities like the police but the reasons for this are not entirely clear."

So the reasons here were tagged upon the end of the entire piece. Philip tells us

"reasons for this are not entirely clear"

The newspapers don't tell us that though. The Daily Mail paints a similar picture to that of the Telegraph.

Of course, the media does not consider or will not even entertain the issue that the GMC may well be a institutionally racist organisation. The details are here. The Coalition government has been aware of this problem for a while and refused to act upon numerous complaints by doctors. The CHRE were warned of institutional racism sometime ago. The majority all white committee stipulated that they would turn a blind eye and that it was not within their remit to investigate discrimination issues. For years, the GMC omitted to collect ethnicity data thereby preventing claims in discrimination law.

The General Medical Council does not tell the world that it is conducting studies to find out about the disproportionate doctors who are being struck off. While the studies continue, the GMC continues to strike off foreign doctors. Of course, when the police targeted the ethnic minority, they were pounced upon immediately by the Equality and Human Rights Commission. When the GMC do much the same, the world turns a blind eye. Thats fine, this is what happened in the Last Days of the Raj. Personally, if I was a foreign doctor I would stop working in the National Health Service and leave England to its own devices. Of course, if all foreign qualified doctors abandoned their posts in the UK, the NHS would collapse. Then I am sure this is the only action that will ensure people pay heed to the injustice suffered by many foreign qualified doctors.

Despite overwhelming evidence of the GMC's malevolent motives and racist attitudes as raised by numerous doctors over two decades, the media fails to recognize the reason for this disproportionate statistics. Why am I the only person writing about the fact that numerous doctors have accused the GMC of racism? Why aren't the media featuring this serious issue? Is it because there may well be mutiny?

The people currently investigating the true extent of discrimination by the GMC should contact

Protection of Human Rights in Public Law

47-49 Carnarvon Street

Manchester

M3 1EZ

Tel: 0161 8340808

Fax: 0871 9004420

Email: info@phrpl.org

Web: www.phrpl.org