Suspension of doctors: GMC may be ultimate sacrifice

doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7441.709-a

BMJ 2004;328:709 (20 March), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7441.709-a

Letter

Suspension of doctors

GMC may be ultimate sacrifice

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EDITOR—In his letter above and on bmj.com> in responseto Empey's editorial, Dudley says that a case could be madefor establishing a unit that has the expertise to handle suspensions.^1
2I think a case should be made for re-establishing a unit tohandle suspensions. This was a function that was carried outby the old regions and ceased when they were dissolved.

Ten years ago a regional medical officer commented that thispower would devolve to local trusts.³ Each medical directorwould face the problem for the first time, and there would beno corporate knowledge. Each trust would make its own mistakesand would learn nothing, only for another trust to repeat itslearning curve. All this repeated learning about disciplinaryprocedures would always be done at the expense of someone else'scareer. The regional medical officer was the later knightedLiam Donaldson—what better man to . . . [Full text of this article]

Oliver R Dearlove, consultant anaesthetist

Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Manchester M27 4HA o.dearlove@man.ac.uk

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