The General Medical Council was guilty of “serious and disturbing failures” when it refused to investigate a father's complaint against a GP over the death of his son, a High Court judge said last week. Arpad Toth of Walingford, Oxfordshire, (father of 5 year old Wilfrid Toth, who died in 1993) and David Jarman, the GP against whom the complaint was made, were victims of these failures, said Mr Justice Lightman.

Mr …