The General Medical Council

1. The General Medical Council is the regulator of medical practitioners. It must ensure all practitioners working in the country are properly trained and practice according to required standards.
2. I filed reports, supported with clear proof, to the GMC and its Chief Executive, Mr Charles Massey, of matters including:
(i). that a psychiatrist perjured himself before the Crown Court, in order to have section 41 of the Mental Health Act 1983 imposed on me,
(ii). that I was detained indefinitely on the basis of false diagnoses, which practitioners refused to correct or to admit to be invalid,
(iii). that doctors had filed false reports in NHS records,
(iv). that practitioners refused to provide their GMC registration reference numbers when I requested they do - it is mandatory that such information be divulged upon request. And
(v). that practitioners refused to explain their diagnoses - Another mandatory requirement.
3. The GMC and Mr Massey did not deny the reports I filed with them were true; it said it would not act because it did not consider the matters to be sufficiently "serious" breaches.
4. By refusing to act on these matters, the GMC disregarded the following sections of the Medical Act 1983 (The Act), which defines the GMC's duties under law:
(i). Section 1A states: "The over-arching objective of the General Council in exercising their functions is the protection of the public." The GMC's refusal to act necessarily failed to protect the public from those practitioners and that NHS Trust.
(ii). Section 1B states, in order to fulfil its functions, the GMC must pursue objectives:
"(b) to promote and maintain public confidence in the medical profession, and
(c) to promote and maintain proper professional standards and conduct for members of that profession [medical practitioners]."
(a). To ignore such conduct must undermine public confidence in the Profession; it is a regressive decision whose compensating merits are not readily apparent to me. I wager the prudence of that decision is equally unclear to the people who made it and to the Chief Executive, Mr Massey, who countenanced it.
(b). This is repudiation of basic standards by practitioners and the Regulator.
5. Everyone living in or passing through this country, even briefly, may require the services of a medical practitioner. The refusal by the GMC to uphold basic standards puts us all in danger.