FW: Myhill's License restored

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In

case you are not aware - please read the

following.

Luv - Sheila

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Press Release

Friday January 7th 2010 from Dr Myhill’s Office

Further

information contact 01547 550611

office@...

General Medical Council Restores Doctor’s Right

to Practise Medicine

In a dramatic

turnabout yesterday the GMC lifted Dr Myhill’s suspension and restored

her license to practise medicine. Dr Myhill was jubilant. Her first reaction

was to thank her many friends who had stood by her. She said “I am so

grateful to those thousands of patients and medical colleagues who knew that I

was a good doctor who had done nothing wrong and kept their faith in me.

Without their help and support I would have struggled to find the strength to

fight.”

The GMC was

forced to accept that no patient had been harmed or put at risk of harm and

that the reasons they had previously given for Dr Myhill’s suspension had

no proper evidence base.

Since her

April Hearing, Dr Myhill has conducted her own defence without any legal

assistance. She pointed out to the GMC at her October, December and January

hearings that the GMC had not presented any formal allegations or indeed any

case against her - this the GMC is obliged to do by law. She did not even know

if she faced criminal or civil charges. In the course of her defence Dr Myhill

pointed out to the GMC that it had broken the law with respect to the 1983

Medical Act, the GMC’s own 2004 Fitness to Practise Rules and procedures,

the Data Protection Act and the Human Rights Act. In particular it had abused

her right to a Fair Trial, her right to Freedom of Expression and her right not

to be punished without due process.

Dr Myhill was

particularly concerned because the GMC had taken patients’ NHS private

and confidential medical records without patient knowledge or permission and in

breach of the GMC’s own procedures. Furthermore, it used confidential

information contained within those notes that it had no right to use.

The GMC initially

refused to consider evidence presented by Dr Myhill, it refused her right to

call witnesses, refused to accept facts as facts and refused to accept that the

accusing doctors had told lies against her. The GMC obtained and used

documentation improperly, which is in breach of the Data Protection Act, it

failed to give her adequate time to prepare her defence, failed to try her

within a reasonable time, failed to take basic witness statements from

complaining doctors, and accepted the most trivial of complaints to try and

bolster their case. One such example of this was when the GMC upheld the most

ridiculous of assertions against Dr Myhill. At her December IOP GMC prosecutor

Gareth Branston presented Dr Myhill with the following complaint:

“I

think finally in the bundle, time-wise, you have an email from a JR to the GMC,

which draws the GMC’s attention to an entry that is on the internet and

as I understand it, it is on the Support Dr Myhill website concerning Dr

Myhill’s assistance with the labour and birth

concerning

a pregnant family friend.”

If the GMC had

bothered to click on the link at the bottom of the Support Dr Myhill website

page they would have seen a picture of her pet pig Rosemary and realised this

was a spoof as indeed the heading ‘A Christmas ‘Tail’’

suggested. Indeed, at her hearing yesterday Dr Myhill wanted to inform the GMC

of this error. However, when she tried to, she was prevented from speaking by

the Panel. This constituted a further breach of the 1983 Medical Act in which

the defendant has the right to be heard.

Dr Myhill had

planned to take the GMC to the High Court in December but this hearing had to

be postponed because of the snow. It remains Dr Myhill’s intention to

pursue her High Court action against the GMC on the grounds that it has

blatantly infringed and broken the law and its own rules. As a direct result Dr

Myhill, together with thousands of her patients, has suffered as a result of

GMC maladministration. The GMC has imposed minor administrative sanctions of Dr

Myhill’s practice but she expects to get these GMC face-saving gestures

lifted at the High Court so she has a completely clean license to practise.

Further

information from:

http://www.supportdrmyhill.co.uk/

Includes

account of Rosemary Hogg’s delivery

Transcript of

Dec IOP hearing

Yesterday’s

GMC determination

The Transcript

of yesterday’s hearing has yet to be published.