According to Pulse Today, GPs legal representatives are very concerned about changes to GP fitness to practice hearings being fast tracked. There is a new body replacing the GMC body which fomerly handled such cases and there are concerns that GP's may not be properly represented in such circumstances.
There is a chilling parallel to our own situation here - nobody sets out to be incompetent or inadequate, surely. But the question I am increasingly being asked by colleagues, whether locums, managers, pharmacy owners, is "is there something that we keep me as comfortable as my present income does, because it's becoming a real worry that just doing our jobs could lead us into trouble?"
Follow the link to the article below and see what I mean. Surely, if GPs are worried now, as well as pharmacists, where are the people going to come from to continue operating our professions and the services which we provide in good faith, if we are too frightened to act. So much for a Code of Ethics. We seem damned if we do and damned if we don't.
In the perscution of so called "witches" in the 1600s, witchfinders stated that "good" witches (those who used herbs to cure ailments, or called charms to resolve a worry) were more evil than "bad" witches, (those who used their "powers and skills" for malevolent purposes), and thus the "good" witches deserved greater perscution that the "bad" witches.
That was 400 years ago. What it must be like to live in "enlightened times"!
Fears over introduction of 'fast-track' GP fitness to practise hearings
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=4126443&encCode=7546292312BC559139429JTBS737226611
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