Additional Fitness to Practise Panels week beginning 27 February 2006

24 February 2006

Please note the hearing into Professor Craft will now be commencing on Wednesday 1 March. The Manchester hearings detailed below were not on the previous email sent this week.

Fitness to Practise Panel
Session beginning 1 March 2006

This case will be considered by a Fitness to Practise Panel applying the General Medical Council’s Preliminary Proceedings Committee and Professional Conduct Committee (Procedure) Rules 1988

The Fitness to Practise Panel will meet at Regent’s Place, 350 Euston Road, London NW1 3JN, to consider one new case of conduct referred for inquiry by the Preliminary Proceedings Committee.

Professor Craft

Area of Practice: London

Type of Case: New Case of Conduct

The Panel will inquire into allegations that Professor Ian Logan Craft, Director of the London Gynaecology and Fertility Centre (LGFC), behaved in a way that was irresponsible, unprofessional, inappropriate and not in the best interests of a number of his patients.

It is alleged that Professor Craft put unwarranted pressure on a patient to have a procedure done by him at the patient’s own expense. It is also alleged that a second patient was not informed at all or adequately of the inherent risks involved in egg donation.

Fitness to Practice Adjudication Panel
Session beginning 3 March 2006

The Fitness to Practice Panel will meet at St James’s Building, 79 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 6FQ to consider a new case of determination.

Dr George David ANGUS

Area of practice:  New South Wales, Australia 

Type of case:  New Determination Case

The panel will inquire into allegations that Dr George David Angus, a Medical Practitioner, had engaged in an inappropriate personal and sexual relationship with a vulnerable patient.

It is further alleged that Dr Angus’s fitness to practise is impaired because of the determination by a regulatory body of the medical profession in New South Wales, Australia to the effect that his fitness to practise as a member of the medical profession in New South Wales, Australia was impaired.

The Medical Tribunal of New South Wales made a finding against Dr Angus of professional misconduct. The tribunal reprimanded him and fined him the sum of Austrian $27,500 to be paid to the New South Wales Medical Board and ordered him to pay the costs of the Health Care Complaints Commission.
 
In accordance with Rule 41(2) of the General Medical Council (Fitness to Practise) Rules 2004, the Panel may decide to exclude the public from the proceedings or any part of the proceedings, where they consider that the circumstances of the case outweigh the public interest in holding the hearing in public.

Fitness to Practice Adjudication Panel
Session beginning 2 March 2006

The Fitness to Practice Panel will meet at St James’s Building, 79 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 6FQ to consider a review case of conduct.

Simon John CASWELL

Area of practice: Bolton

Type of case: Review Hearing

The Panel will review the case of Dr Simon John Caswell.  Dr Caswell appeared before the Professional Conduct Committee in November 2003 and was found guilty of serious professional misconduct. 

The charge found proved in November 2003 was that Dr Caswell, a General Practitioner, had prescribed controlled drugs in an inappropriate and unprofessional manner and that in doing so, he failed to keep adequate records in relation to the administration of such drugs.

It was further found proved that Dr Caswell breached a condition imposed by the Interim Orders Committee of the General Medical Council on the 10th December 2002 relating to the unauthorised prescribing of morphine sulphate.

In accordance with Rule 41(2) of the General Medical Council (Fitness to Practise) Rules 2004, the Panel may decide to exclude the public from the proceedings or any part of the proceedings, where they consider that the circumstances of the case outweigh the public interest in holding the hearing in public.