Psychiatrist Salim Nayani was struck off by the General Medical Council. Everyone can read the article here. Of course, yours truly worked at Northamptonshire Mental Health Trust and I have met Salim. I meet him while struggling with the bizarre repeated boring memos sent by Alexander O Neill Kerr. Kerr was the head poncho of this collection of shrinks. It is an amusing collection really. O Neill Kerr was always far too busy painting his nails to notice what was going on in his own hospital. The story below narrates a trouble free period prior to the consultants knowledge of my past. It then describes a the disastrous consequences after their discovery of my whistleblowing past, my case with the GMC etc.
My own skirmish first commenced when consultants Dr Linda Hall and her side kick Dr Anders Skarsten knew about the North Staffordshire NHS Trust incident. Linda felt that I should examine my feelings on why I had whistleblown. I refused to accept that I was the problem at North Staffordshire NHS Trust and proceeded to find the evidence to prove it [ I succeeded in this].
The first way of sabotaging my ability to progress was a reference by Dr Anders Skarsten to the Section 12 [2] Panel. Oh, we know how much was tried to keep the document concealed from me. Anyhow, like most things in life, these things have a habit of landing on my lap.
The reference stated as follows
17th September 2004
Dr GoodheadChairman of East Midlands and YorkshireSection 12 Accreditation panelDepartment of PsychiatryDoncaster Royal InfirmaryArmthorpe RoadDoncasterDN25LT
Dear Dr Goodhead
I am writing to clarify my position regarding Rita Pal who is a appealing against the decision to defer approval of her Section 12 status until she has achieved a specialist qualification in line with the revised guidelines for Section 12 approval.
Dr Pal was clinically competent enough for consideration for Section 12 approval. However, I am disconcerted that she has resorted to a litigious stance regarding the panel who after all are unpaid volunteers. Philosophically Dr Kamyuka is in the twilight of his career, whereas Dr Pal is at the start of her career and should consider qualifications as a stepping stone to advancement.
Yours sincerely
Dr Anders Skarsten
Consultant Psychiatrist
As it turned out, Dr Kamyuka was given Section 12[2] approval despite not having any postgraduate qualifications. His limited registration experience [experience before full registration] was apparently superior to those who were UK qualified with 5 years post registration experience :). He was also given a warning by the General Medical Council. Kamyuka had been supported by Professor Bhugra of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and this was no doubt an effort to fast track a black psychiatrist despite his minor post registration experience. A comparator colleague [ not me] with more than 5 years post registration substantive experience was turned down for Section 12[2] approval under the Mental Health Act. Doctors.net.uk has a thread on the Goodhead discriminatory party and the inconsistency in decision making that exists to this day.
The GMC states as follows on Dr Kamyuka's record.
"In Future, 1. You must not drive whilst under the influence of alcohol and must comply with laws and regulations regarding driving motor vehicles; 2. You must refrain from criminal activity which risks bringing the profession into disrepute”.
Prior to this, Linda Hall had been informed of Kamyuka's misdemeanors and she huffed "Oh, these are just minor issues". As is the fact that many years on, Kamyuka continues to be investigated for dishonesty by the General Medical Council. Fascinating isn't it.
In the meantime, the crowing Dr Anders Skarsten was given a warning for his interesting cameraderie for Dr Kamyuka. Skarten is now happily up the management ladder in Wales with this accessory warning from the GMC.
In the meantime, the GMC states as follows [ GMC warning]
"This behaviour does not meet with the standards required of a doctor. It risks bringing the profession into disrepute and it must not be repeated. The required standards are set out in Good Medical Practice and associated guidance. In this case paragraph 65 of Good Medical Practice is particularly relevant: ‘You must do your best to make sure that any documents you write or sign are not false or misleading. This means that you must take reasonable steps to verify the information in the documents, and that you must not deliberately leave out relevant information’.
Whilst this failing in itself is not so serious as to require any restriction on your registration, it is necessary in response, to issue this formal warning.”
We can therefore conclude what kind of doctor, Linda Hall, Anders Skarsten, Professor Dinesh Bhugra and Dr Goodhead bent over backwards for. While they were doing this, Linda Hall and Salim Nayani were interviewing a decent locum staff grade for their permanent job. This doctor overheard their conversation. while he was sitting outside. Apparently, because the staff grade had prior mental health problems, they were against employing him. Of course, breaching the DDA didn't occur to them. He didn't get the job. As karma twists on that merry road to fascination, Dr Hall went off work with .......... :). Well, what can we say.
I often wondered whether the patients were saner than the psychiatrists when I was in Northamptonshire. The final twist to the tale was that of Dr Anders Skarsten who himself decided to take a litigious stance and sue the Trust he was fired from. It turned out that Skarsten was not on the specialist register while he was working as a consultant. Anyhow, he extracted a tidy sum from Northamptonshire NHS Trust. Apparently, while racing in Silverstone, he was severely depressed, so said his expert witness aka, his colleague from Kings College Hospital.
Para 42 of the judgment is quite brilliant. Those of us who are astute enough will understand its amusement factor.
" Ms Kaur accepts that the first and second reasons given in the letter of dismissal were reasons which related to Dr Skarsten's disability in light of the medical report from Prof Farmer which expressly links his severe depression with forgetfulness including or perhaps typically forgetfulness in checking whether his application for specialist registration had gone through".
I really didn't wish to mention the numerous drug company lunches, the drunk phone calls and the parties that this severely depressed person once had. Of course, it must have been so shortsighted of a team full of psychiatrists on weekly meetings who failed to notice that their colleague was severely depressed :).
Anyhow, it took me about 6 years to establish the jokers in this particular group. O Neill paid no attention but that is nothing new.
I had the last laugh of course :). The next laugh is that Dr Kamyuka is still Section 12[2] approved and continues to section vulnerable people :). This I believe is the nearest evidence to positive discrimination, we have seen :). The Royal College, colluding with various consultants to fast track black psychiatrists while turning a blind eye to their integrity . All to ensure ethnic matching.
Perhaps David Goodhead has a bad case of cataracts these days :) and failed to read the dishonest statements in Kamyuka's application form in front of him. Something about undeclared convictions perhaps? :).
5 comments:
Amazing investigation. GMC wish they had you working for them.
What is it about Uganda that the GMC loves so much?
Robert Gray was a magistrate in Uganda. He was also the Registrar at the GMC, responsible for letting Shipman get away in 1975. And gave evidence to that effect to Dame Janet and the Shipman inquiry
And now yet another Ugandan gets away with it.
Worse, Robert Gray is not just responsible for letting the guilty get away. I am reliably informed that he also prosecuted innocent doctors. RP should know.
The GMC thinks its is above not just UK law but above even its own rules when it deals with the likes of Dr Kamyuka.
This is because the Medical Act has given the GMC the illusion/delusion of being above the law. The GMC thinks the Medical Act allows it not just to write its own law but puts it above every other law in this country.
Other areas the GMC considers itself above the law include the Disabilty Discrimination act and the Equality Law.
The only other place like it is the Vatican, in Rome. The Vatican is a State within a State.
Both the GMC and the Vatican have an antiquarian ideology, the same kind of liking for perverts and small boys and worst of all, Pope Benedict XVI and Niall Dickson think themselves infallible
Dr Rubin Whatshisname and Mr Niall Dickson should be addressed by their correct title of "Holy Father"
For those of you who don't know
1975 Shipman was brought before the GMC for forging prescriptions and a ton of morphine in his attic. The police had prosecuted him for this
Shipman went through a detox programme (not difficult - if he wasn't taking the morphine in his attic - who was????)
Robert Gray saw the lighter side of Shipman's character. After Shipman was cleared of his own addiction to morphine was free again to administer it to others.
As if Shipman had ever done otherwise
We come back again to Uganda - what is it that the GMC have about Uganda? - the same sort of thing that they have about doctors from Glasgow, Freemasons, and Scientology?
Perhaps the GMC and Northamptonshire are a cherry short of a schwarzwalderkirschtorte
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