Doctor is struck off over “unconventional” treatments on children

An 87 year old doctor has been struck off the UK medical register after she was found to have treated two young children with unconventional and unapproved methods that offered no prospect of benefit and could have led to harm.

Jean Monro was the medical director at the private Breakspear Medical clinic in Hemel Hempstead.

She had been suspended from the register in May 2023, when a medical practitioners tribunal found that she had supported four hours of oxygen mask use a day as a treatment for a 6 year old boy, which the tribunal said was “experimental in nature and [of] unproven benefit.”1 The boy’s parents had been briefly arrested after his NHS paediatrician triggered a protocol for fabricated or induced illness but were later released without charge.2

During Monro’s suspension, a new case was brought against her by the General Medical Council regarding a 5 year old …