BMJ  2003;327:518 (6 September), doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7414.518

News

In brief

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

GMC faces legal threat: Former patients of British gynaecologist Richard Neale, who was struck off the medical register in 2000, have threatened the General Medical Council with legal action, after the council told an inquiry that it was notified in 1985 of his being struck off in Canada. The GMC put his name on a "stop list" for immigrating doctors, without realising that he was already registered with the council in the United Kingdom.

Payments to be made for hepatitis C error: England's health secretary, John Reid, is to establish a financial assistance scheme for people who contracted hepatitis C as a result of being given infected blood products by the NHS. The details of the payments are yet to be worked out.

Dutch pharmacists to dispense cannabis: The Netherlands has become the first country to make medical cannabis available on prescription from pharmacists. The cannabis will be distributed through . . . [Full text of this article]


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to StumbleUpon StumbleUpon   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?

Access jobs at BMJ Careers
Whats new online at Student BMJ