Parents win ruling to send doctors back to GMC
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back to GMC over misdiagnosis by Clare Dyer, legal editor May 01, 2006 Source: The Guardian Daughter suffered chronic fatigue, not child abuse Spotlight on secrecy in family justice system Parents who were suspected of making up their daughter's illness and fought a lengthy battle to keep her out of care before social workers dropped the case have won a high court ruling requiring that the General Medical Council re-examine their complaint against the two paediatricians who sparked the concerns. The case, which until now has been shrouded in the secrecy involved in court cases about children, has come to light only because the parents took the GMC to the high court after it initially rejected their complaint. Tomorrow Sir Mark Potter, president of the high court's family division and the senior family judge in England and Wales, will face MPs to answer questions about the lack of transparency in the family justice system. Critics say the confidentiality rules allow those operating within the system to escape the accountability which goes with media scrutiny. Article continues |
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