The Wicked Lady

There is a very old film starring Margaret Lockwood. It is worth watching. In the modern day, we observe a different kind of Wicked Lady.

Over the last few weeks, on NHS Exposed, we have been eating popcorn and watching the events regarding a lady named Penny Mellor unfold. Of course, we had all discovered Mellor, exposed her and ensured her judgment was on the internet in the year 2007. In 2007 though few paid much attention.  The BMJ has continually supported Penny Mellor. I suspect Fiona Godlee likes the kind of rough road campaigner gracing her drab journal.

Mellor's ego will no doubt he flattered by the features run by the BMJ, Hospital Doctor and various bloggers. Most of these features have been less than insightful. They have all looked upon the situation from a very superficial level and few journalists have understood the advanced nature of Mellor's ability to waste public finances and doctors' subs. Mellor is like a infamous highway man who is fast becoming a bad legend. Over the years, sheets and sheets of paper have been dedicated to her. Nothing has happened though. Mellor continues as she has always done.

Of course, peaks and troughs of her antics were featured back in he late 1990s. Her infamy waxes and wanes and essentially, the Child Protection Professionals are controlled by her. The situation is a bit like S and M. She hits them and they wonder around the medical profession whining about it. The cycle happens again. The problem though is that this cycle has been ongoing for a decade or more with no end in sight. They have become much like the children who are abused - unable to control their destiny or fate.

PACA is essentially a limp organisation who have never believed in action.  They do believe in garnering sympathy and publicity for a situation they have never been able to control. Nothing has actually improved for them in the last decade or more. They have taken no action under the Harassment Act or Defamation Act. They relied on me to remove msbp.com and then remained ungrateful about it, opting never to mention my name in polite company at all. For years, these child protection whined about msbp.com until someone like me went and dealt with it.

Nevertheless, looked at this situation from an objective point of view - what is fascinating is Penny Mellor's ability to make the entire profession of child protection run around her. Of course, this fits with her diva like tendencies. Divas often like those who pay attention to them [ whether it be negative or positive attention]. Secondly, Mellor has developed an advanced method of taking advantage of the GMC's procedures. She ensures the allegations are flamboyant such as "murder or mayhem" and she ensures there are multiple complainants. These are the two ingredients required for the complaint to go past the preliminary stages.  For instance, if there were 1600 doctors complaining about Liam Donaldson, the complaint would go through but sadly one complaint by Remedy UK meant that the pattern for initial triage was never met.  The GMC have yet to declare her a vexatious complainant but then she knows how to play most people.

This is not the first time, the General Medical Council have taken her seriously. Back in the past, they held a secret meeting with her and her operatives. Then we all know that the GMC is infiltrated with Scientologists with their own agenda. It is simply that PACA is in denial of these elements of evidence and have never understood the gravity the problem. PACA was created not to protect children but to ensure paediatricians hid behind each other against Penny Mellor. It then dissipated research and articles in support of their agenda. Few research papers written by their members have any declaration to their membership with PACA. Of course, while sympathy has been gained for their cause, they have no solution for Mellor. Of course, I often have a solution and like the msbp.com website, I could have taken action in the year 2007. I though felt that some people need to develop some balls and take the bull by the horns. It is now 2010 and PACA have  not developed a set of balls. It will be 2020 and they will be in the same situation - their solution to the problem being repeated articles about Mellor which essentially propagate her infamy and essentially push her into the legendary status.

Anyhow, it is interesting that many bloggers et al have taken 3 years to mention them.  The penny has apparently dropped that Mellor is a serial complainant. Of course, the GMC and many authorities including the Attorney General have been hemorrhaging money into her tales for years. I often wonder whether the current government will notice the large pit where public money has been squandered.

It is though fascinating to watch one woman rule the medical profession. The medical profession being so inept that they have failed at each juncture to take adequate action against her. No doubt they will make her into a legend much like the Wicked Lady. 

Declared Conflict.  R v GMC Ex Parte Pal [ dual complaint by Mellor and her team that was thrown out before Rule 7].