Published 16 November 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b4864
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b4864
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GP is struck off for lying to police
Clare Dyer
1 BMJ
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A GP who lied to the police and a coroner has been ordered to be struck off the medical register for bringing the profession into disrepute.
Nigel Palmer and his practice manager, Nancy Wainwright, lied to cover up his failure to visit Eileen Gill, 82, before she died in a fire at her home in September 2007.
Her daughter called Barnsley social services from her home in Spain a month before the fire because she was concerned that her mother, who used matches carelessly, might burn the house down.
Social services contacted Dr Palmer’s surgery to request a visit, but although Mrs Gill lived only four doors away from the practice no visit was made. She died after a discarded match set her bed alight.
Dr Palmer, 46, and Ms Wainwright told police that the practice had only one message book, in which no request to visit Mrs Gill was
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