List of Erased Doctors who appealed under Section 41 rule
JOSEPH ONWUDE made this Freedom of Information request to General Medical Council This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.
Dear General Medical Council,
I an requesting a list of all Doctors struck off from the Medical Register between 01/01/2015 and 31/12/2021 who appealed under Section 40 Rule.
Yours faithfully,
Joseph Onwude
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Dear Mr Onwude
Your information request – IR1-3325154952
Thank you for your email dated 18 January 2022 in which you ask for a list
of all Doctors struck off from the Medical Register between 01/01/2015 -
31/12/2021 who appealed under Section 40 Rule.
How we will consider your request
We’re going to consider your request under the Freedom of Information Act
2000 (FOIA). The FOIA gives us 20 working days to respond, but we’ll come
back to you as soon as we can.
Who to contact
Henna Janghir will be handling your request. If you have any questions you
can call them on 0161 923 6710 or email them at
[1][email address].
Kind regards,
Charlotte Adams
Information Access Team Assistant
General Medical Council
3 Hardman Street, Manchester M3 3AW
Email: [2][email address]
Website: [3]www.gmc-uk.org
Telephone: 0161 240 8125
Working hours: 8am to 2.30pm, Monday to Friday
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Dear Mr Onwude
Your information request – IR1-3325154952
Thank you for your email dated 18 January 2022 requesting a list of all
doctors struck off from the Medical Register between 01/01/2015 -
31/12/2021 who appealed under section 40 of the Medical Act 1983. I have
considered your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).
I have interpreted your request to mean doctors that have appealed their
erasure from the medical register. Between 1 January 2015 to 31 December
2021, 41 doctors have appealed their erasure under s.40 of the Medical Act
1983.
However, I’m unable to provide you with a list of the actual doctors that
have appealed their erasure. This is because it is the personal data of
the individuals involved. I’ve given details of the exemption under the
FOIA which applies below.
The exemption
Section 40(2), by virtue of section 40(3A)(a) is an exemption that applies
where the information is the personal data of a third party and where
releasing the information would breach any of the principles relating to
the processing of personal data listed at Article 5 of the General Data
Protection Regulation (GDPR). In this instance disclosure would breach the
first principle, which requires the processing of information to be
lawful, fair and transparent. I do not believe that any of the legal bases
for processing listed at Article 6 of the GDPR are met and therefore
giving you the information would be unlawful.
Who to contact
I hope you find this information useful. If you have any queries about
this, or need anything further, please contact me on the details below. If
you have any concerns about the way I’ve handled your request, please set
out your reasons in writing to [1][GMC request email].
Yours sincerely
Henna Janghir
Information Access Officer
General Medical Council
3 Hardman Street
Manchester
M3 3AW
Email: [2][email address]
Tel: 0161 923 6710
Website: [3]www.gmc-uk.org
From: FOI
Sent: 24 January 2022 10:42
To: 'JOSEPH ONWUDE' <[FOI #823520 email]>
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information request - List of Erased Doctors who
appealed under Section 41 rule
Dear Mr Onwude
Your information request – IR1-3325154952
Thank you for your email dated 18 January 2022 in which you ask for a list
of all Doctors struck off from the Medical Register between 01/01/2015 -
31/12/2021 who appealed under Section 40 Rule.
How we will consider your request
We’re going to consider your request under the Freedom of Information Act
2000 (FOIA). The FOIA gives us 20 working days to respond, but we’ll come
back to you as soon as we can.
Who to contact
Henna Janghir will be handling your request. If you have any questions you
can call them on 0161 923 6710 or email them at
[4][email address].
Kind regards,
Charlotte Adams
Information Access Team Assistant
General Medical Council
3 Hardman Street, Manchester M3 3AW
Email: [5][email address]
Website: [6]www.gmc-uk.org
Telephone: 0161 240 8125
Working hours: 8am to 2.30pm, Monday to Friday
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Dear Henna Janghir,
This is not understandable since you previously send the list of doctors who were erased. However you only snt the information for 2020-2021.
i shall be content with similar information FOR ALL THAT WERE ERASD BETWEEN 2015 AND 2021.
I WILL SEEK THEIR APPEAL STATUS THROUGH THE COURTS.
Yours sincerely,
JOSEPH ONWUDE
Dear Mr Onwude
Your information request – IR1-3349908126
Thank you for your email dated 24 February 2022 in which you ask for a
list of doctors erased from the medical register between 2015 and 2021.
How we will consider your request
We’re going to consider your request under the Freedom of Information Act
2000 (FOIA). The FOIA gives us 20 working days to respond, but we’ll come
back to you as soon as we can.
Who to contact
Henna Janghir will be handling your request. If you have any questions you
can call them on 0161 923 6710 or email them at
[1][email address].
Kind regards,
Charlotte Adams
Information Access Team Assistant
General Medical Council
3 Hardman Street, Manchester M3 3AW
Email: [2][email address]
Website: [3]www.gmc-uk.org
Telephone: 0161 240 8125
Working hours: 8am to 2.30pm, Monday to Friday
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Dear Mr Onwude,
Your information request – IR1-3349908126
Thank you for your email dated 24 February 2022 in which you ask for a
list of doctors erased from the medical register between 2015 and 2021.
Please see attached a list of doctors that were erased between 1 January
2015 to 31 December 2019 following a MPT (Medical Practitioners Tribunal)
hearing. I have not included the information for 2020-21 as this has
already been provided to you under a different information request
(reference IR1-3325154987).
Please note that some doctors may have subsequently been restored to the
register.
Who to contact
I hope you find this information useful. If you have any further
questions, or concerns about your request, please contact
[1][GMC request email].
Yours sincerely
Henna Janghir
Information Access Officer
General Medical Council
3 Hardman Street
Manchester
M3 3AW
Email: [2][email address]
Tel: 0161 923 6710
Website: [3]www.gmc-uk.org
From: FOI
Sent: 24 February 2022 14:05
To: '[FOI #823520 email]'
<[FOI #823520 email]>
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information request - List of Erased Doctors who
appealed under Section 41 rule
Dear Mr Onwude
Your information request – IR1-3349908126
Thank you for your email dated 24 February 2022 in which you ask for a
list of doctors erased from the medical register between 2015 and 2021.
How we will consider your request
We’re going to consider your request under the Freedom of Information Act
2000 (FOIA). The FOIA gives us 20 working days to respond, but we’ll come
back to you as soon as we can.
Who to contact
Henna Janghir will be handling your request. If you have any questions you
can call them on 0161 923 6710 or email them at
[4][email address].
Kind regards,
Charlotte Adams
Information Access Team Assistant
General Medical Council
3 Hardman Street, Manchester M3 3AW
Email: [5][email address]
Website: [6]www.gmc-uk.org
Telephone: 0161 240 8125
Working hours: 8am to 2.30pm, Monday to Friday
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Dear General Medical Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of General Medical Council's handling of my FOI request 'List of Erased Doctors who appealed under Section 41 rule'.
[ GIVE DETAILS ABOUT YOUR COMPLAINT HERE ]
list of doctors who were erased from the medical register who appealed under section 40
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/l...
Yours faithfully,
JOSEPH ONWUDE
Good morning Mr Onwude,
Thank you for your email. I just require a few more details before I can progress this.
Please send me the reference number of the request you are seeking to review and the reasons for seeking this review.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards,
Charlotte Adams
Information Access Team Assistant
General Medical Council
3 Hardman Street, Manchester M3 3AW
Email: [email address]
Website: www.gmc-uk.org
Telephone: 0161 240 8125
Working hours: 8am to 2.30pm, Monday to Friday
Dear General Medical Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of General Medical Council's handling of my FOI request 'List of Erased Doctors who appealed under Section 41 rule'.
Dear Sir
This request did not respond to the aspect that will allow tracking of these doctors. I am a doctor who has written about my issues and sent it for publication in BMJ OPEN. It analyzed cases of doctors who were Erased from the register and who appealed the decision. My case was Onwude v GMC 2017 EWHC 601 (601) and i won my appeal.
The academic purpose
[ The academic purpose is to analyze all similar doctors who appealed and want to contact them ]
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/l...
Yours faithfully,
JOSEPH ONWUDE
Thank you for getting in touch. Please note this is an automated email.
We’ll get back to you as soon as we can with a further acknowledgement.
You’ll usually hear from us on the next working day, but it might take a
little longer during busy periods.
In the meantime, if you want any further information about the GMC, please
visit our website.
Thank you
Information Access team
General Medical Council
Email: [GMC request email]
Dear Mr Onwude
Thank you for your email dated 26 April 2022.
We will be considering your email under our comments and complaints
procedure. This sets a target response time of 20 working days. We will
endeavour to respond to you within this timeframe.
Elizabeth Hiley will be handling your request. If you have any questions,
you can call her on 0161 923 6314 or email her at
[1][email address].
Kind regards,
Charlotte Adams
Information Access Team Assistant
General Medical Council
3 Hardman Street, Manchester M3 3AW
Email: [2][email address]
Website: [3]www.gmc-uk.org
Telephone: 0161 240 8125
Working hours: 8am to 2.30pm, Monday to Friday
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S. Ali left an annotation ()
This is active injustice by a bad GMC against doctors where the GMC have applied for punitive court extensions restricting employment. The concern not properly highlighted is action is not actually in the public interest but to allow non-medical staff (and employed incompetent legal staff) incompetent at investigating to slowly continue investigating. Clearly compensation for loss of earnings as set out in the Medical Act 1983 (as amended) should be paid but will not, as the GMC are more keen to pay non-doctor staff extortionate salaries and charity tax-cheats/QCs to persecute doctors only.
The GMC should apply Rule 12 or act on behalf of all these doctors - which is would have if it treated doctors fairly (last century) but now will not and make up excuses to prevent justice.
This is work that should clearly have been already been done by the GMC and should not need a Good Samaritan doctor to do the work for them.
Mr Onwude, please consider contacting the BMA and Human Rights organizations to take further just action against the unfit for purpose GMC. I would say ask your MP
to then contact the Parliamentary Health Service Ombudsman and weakling-PSA but the the GMC is no longer elected but appointed by a questionable system which has its own problems.
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J Roberts left an annotation ()
A recent opinion concerning section 41 you might be interested in:
https://scotcourts.gov.uk/docs/default-s...
'[1] ...The petitioner [GMC] invites the court to extend further, by a period of 12 months, the period of the interim order of conditions imposed by the Interim Orders Tribunal hereinafter referred to as the “IOT”) on 16 April 2019...
[15 ] As I have already indicated my first finding, the petitioners’ proceeding on an erroneous understanding of their own guidelines is sufficient to determine this application in favour of the respondent. I refuse that application.'