Children's Safety Concerns Closures: How and Who by? It matters
Summary:
A children’s doctor raised serious safety and compliance concerns.
She believes several have been closed without proper verification, specialist expertise or accurate information. This has occurred at multiple levels.
This matters because safety issues may recur, and patients may not know the truth about concerns and their closure.
Funds are needed to seek expert reviews and responsible escalation to the GMC and/or police with formal legal support
A specialist children’s doctor raised serious concerns about patient safety, consent, information and procedural compliance through appropriate channels, including the GMC. She also reported how concerns were being closed, and why those were not appropriate closures.
She expected the concerns to be assessed with relevant clinical expertise and proper analysis. Her experience was not consistent with that. In the GMC process, following further enquiry, documentary information indicates that no clinical expertise was applied. No verification of notes has been conducted.
The doctor sought formal advice and, with additional support from an experienced clinician, raised issues for further consideration to the GMC. Several months later, she still awaits a definitive decision. Further formal representations are therefore necessary and unavoidable.
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