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Official transcripts from
Dr Skinner's GMC FTP hearing
The official day-by-day transcripts from Dr Gordon Skinner's General Medical
Council Fitness to Practice hearing. Special thanks to Julie Cameron for
obtaining these transcripts.
Notes on Skinner GMC panel
FTP decision
Sunday, 11 November 2007, was the day the General Medical Council panel
decided that Dr Skinner's fitness to practice had been 'impaired'. We
have been extremely concerned for the past two and a half years that the
GMC might remove his registration, but were amazed, during the summing
up by the Chairperson, to hear her tell Dr Skinner before she continued
to give the final determination.
Dr Skinner condemns the GMC: Document Overview
Dr Skinner hits back at the GMC and its insistence on using flawed principles
and misinformation against his practice of medicine. In this series of
articles, Dr Skinner once again corrects the Body's misconceptions and
ideas for fear that the GMC's continued incorrect beliefs and unproven
precepts will become policy and seriously affect practicing endocrinologists
and general practitioners.
Considerations
on Fitness to Practise Panel Determination 7th September 2007
Professional integrity is absent. The Panel have been asked to adjudge
on allegations made on three occasions by practitioners who have never seen the patients
nor had the courtesy to address any concerns with my good self and yet these types
of allegations - which are clearly unfounded - were entertained in full by the GMC; Dr SKinner
asks that consideration be given to this unprofessional approach to peer review
of medical practice.
GMC versus
Dr Gordon Skinner: Pantomime for everyone but the patient
A Fitness to Practise Panel comprising an ophthalmologist and three lay
members have deemed that Dr Gordon R B Skinner has impaired fitness to practise
medicine. Their determination mainly focused on a patient who had travelled
some distance to the hearing but the GMC would not then receive her evidence.
GMC versus
Dr Gordon Skinner: A sliver of hope in a sea of despair
The Panel of the GMC at Dr Skinner's Fitness to Practise hearing have at last
acknowledged contrary to the view of their own two expert witnesses that diagnosis
of hypothyroidism notwithstanding thyroid chemistry within 95% reference
intervals does not constitute impaired Fitness to Practise.
Document of
Record concerning UK Guidelines for thyroid function test
Skinner states his non-acceptance of the precepts contained in the 2005
diagnosis and treatment guidelines set forth by the Association for Clinical
Biochemistry, British Thyroid Association, and British Thyroid Foundation
Working Group.
Critique
of proposed ‘UK Guidelines for the use of thyroid function tests’
In October 2005, the Association of Clinical Biochemistry, the British
Thyroid Association and British Thyroid Foundation kindly prepared a document
entitled “UK Guidelines for the Use of Thyroid Function Tests”,
followed by a revision in July 2006 with proposition of a further review
after one year of practice. Dr Skinner critiques these guidelines.
Thyroid
Replacement in Clinically Hypothyroid Patients who have Free Thyroxine
or Thyroid Stimulating Hormone within 95% Reference Intervals
There is controversy in the medical profession on the advisability of
thyroid replacement in patients whose thyroid chemistry in particular
the free thyroxine (FT4) and or thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) lie
inside the laboratory 95% reference intervals. This is a central issue
in an ongoing GMC v Skinner Fitness to Practice Hearing, and one in which
Dr Skinner discusses at length.
Dr Skinner, TPA-UK
in Daily Mail article
In the article entitled "The wake-you-up pill . . . how a controversial
thyroid supplement could help tiredness", Science and Medical writer
Jerome Burne presents several patient cases of extreme exhaustion and
other symptoms that pointed to hypothyroidism. These patients subsequently
sought help from Dr Gordon Skinner whose treatment inveritably changed
their lives for the better.
Patient
letter from Dr Skinner
"Since I last wrote to you there has been a significant develop-ment
in that the Fitness to Practise hearing was finalised on 11.11.2007. I
am pleased to report that the Fitness to Practise Panel considered that
I could continue to practice under essen-tially a continuance of the Interim
Order conditions, which have been operating since the first Interim Order
hearing in 2005. . ."