Registration status of Stephen Jeremy KRIKLER GMC reference no: 264
Dear General Medical Council,
Please confirm the registration status of the afore-mentioned
It appears from your online register that the afore-mentioned lost his medical registration on 3 May 13.
However, he was again not only restored to the medical register on 1 Nov 13 but also to the specialist register for trauma & orthopaedics on 1 Nov 13. Can the GMC explain this?
All disciplinary & fitness to practice history about Stephen Krikler's history (which should be in the public domain) is concealed by the GMC. Why is that?
In violation of the FOI Act, the GMC refuses perfectly legal freedom of information requests about Stephen Krikler. Why is that?
Yours faithfully,
S Ahmed
Dear General Medical Council,
Stephen Krikler's GMC reference is 2648556 (for avoidance of doubt).
Yours faithfully,
Ahmed
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Dear S Ahmed
Your information request – IR1-3628759986
Thank you for your email dated 24 July 2022, asking for information on Stephen Krikler.
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
Remi Owolabi will be handling your request. If you have any questions you can call them on 0161 240 7225 or email them at [email address].
Yours sincerely
Selen Shah
Information Access Assistant
General Medical Council
3 Hardman Street
Manchester M3 3AW
Dear Mr Ahmed
Your information access request
Thank you for your email dated 24 July 2022, where you ask for information
on Dr Stephen Krikler. I’ve considered your request under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 (FOIA).
Publicly available information about the doctor’s registration is on our
List of Registered Medical Practitioners (LRMP), which can be found on our
website: [1]www.gmc-uk.org.
Under the FOIA I am unable to confirm whether or not we hold any
information in relation to your request, because it would breach data
protection legislation to do so.
We believe it’s reasonable for doctors and complainants to expect that
complaints will be treated as confidential. If a case progresses to a
hearing, or an investigation concludes with a warning or undertakings,
certain information may be made publicly available by the GMC, in line
with our publication and disclosure policy for fitness to practise
information. Otherwise the information is treated as the confidential
personal data of the doctor and other parties involved. I’ve given details
of the exemption under the FOIA which applies below.
The exemption
Section 40(5B)(a)(i) of the FOIA applies where the information, if held,
would be the personal data of a third party and where confirming whether
it’s held would breach any of the principles relating to the processing of
personal data listed at Article 5 of the GDPR. I believe that to publicly
confirm or deny whether we hold the information would breach the first
principle, which requires that the processing of personal data is 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.
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I'm sorry I couldn’t provide the information you requested. If you would
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Yours sincerely
Remi Owolabi (she/her)
Information Access Officer
General Medical Council
3 Hardman Street
Manchester M3 3AW
Email: [4][email address]
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Dear Remi Owolabi,
It is illogical & defamatory on your part to claim that I seek any personal data on Stephen Krikler.
It is evident instead from the General Medical Council (GMC) web-site that Stephen Krikler was erased following Fitness to Practice procedures. While the said proceedings are no longer in the public domain Stephen Krikler's erasure is.
Following his erasure Stephen Krikler was restored within 5 months by the GMC in violation of the Medical Act 1983.
The GMC's information access team as the data on this web-site shows thwarts any inquiries about Stephen Krikler & threatens the public with the GDPR when no such exception is made for other doctors.
Instead it is the GMC that misrepresents the Freedom of Information Act & misapplies the GDPR in Stephen Krikler's case.
Under the Freedom of Information Act the public has a right to know who illegally restored Stephen Krikler to the medical register & why he is still registered when he could possibly not have applied for restoration before 2018.
The Fitness to Practice proceedings relating to Stephen Krikler should also be in the public domain.
The GMC has a duty to disclose to the public who bends the rules for Stephen Krikler.
Yours sincerely,
S Ahmed
Thank you for your email.
I am unavailable until 30 August 2022, and I won't be able to reply until
then.
For anything urgent please contact the Information Access Team on [1]0161
923 6365 or email [2][GMC request email]
Kind regards,
Remi Owolabi
Information Access Officer
General Medical Council
3 Hardman Street
Manchester M3 3AW
Email: [3][email address]
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Dear General Medical Council,
I still await an update to my request.
Yours faithfully,
S Ahmed
Dear Mr Ahmed,
IR: IR1-3684274727
Thank you for your email dated 22^nd August 2022.
I’m sorry for the delay in acknowledging your request.
We will be considering your email as a Freedom of Information Act 2000
(FOIA) appeal. We have a target response time of 20 working days. We will
endeavour to respond to you within this timeframe.
Julian Graves will be handling your request. If you have any questions you
can contact him via email at [1][email address] .
Yours Sincerely,
Alex Mason
Information Access Administrator
General Medical Council
3 Hardman Street
Manchester M3 3AW
Dear S Ahmed
Please find attached my appeal response.
Yours sincerely
Julian Graves
Julian Graves
Information Access Manager
General Medical Council
3 Hardman Street
Manchester M3 3AW
Tel. no: 0161 923 6351
Email: [email address]
Dear Julian Graves,
You wrote to me:
“‘In violation of the FOI Act, the GMC refuses perfectly legal freedom
of information requests about Stephen Krikler. Why is that? We would obviously dispute the premise of your question and can confirm that we hold no recorded information in relation to this question.”
On the other hand there is plenty of information on this site alone that you threaten members of the public when they ask valid questions about Stephen Krikler’s registration (or lack thereof. While you pretend not to know about it in an earlier request about Stephen Krikler
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/i...
Mark Ellen of the GMC repeatedly claimed that references to Stephen Krikler not having registration were ‘defamatory’. Do you at least concede that your position has changed since & that true statements about Stephen Krikler not having registration are not libelous?
Moreover, the prolonged argument in which you have thus far engaged me does nothing to disclose whether or not Stephen Krikler is in the medical register which is very much in the public interest.
Yours sincerely,
S Ahmed
I am currently away from work until 25 October 2022 and will have no email
access. In my absence please email: [GMC request email]
Dear S Ahmed
As I made clear in my appeal response, if you continue to be unhappy with my response to your request your route of escalation is via the Information Commissioner's Office. I will not be engaging in further correspondence in relation to this request.
Yours sincerely
Julian Graves
Julian Graves
Information Access Manager
General Medical Council
3 Hardman Street
Manchester M3 3AW
Tel. no: 0161 923 6351
Email: [email address]
Dear Julian Graves,
Do you concede that it is not defamatory to say that Stephen Krikler was not registered between 3 May & 1 November 2013?
Also, with the GMC register being a public document, whose privacy do I breach by asking how Stephen Krikler was restored within 5 months of his erasure?
Yours sincerely,
S Ahmed
I am currently away from work until 14 November 2022 and will have no
email access. In my absence please email: [GMC request email]
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 'Registration status of Stephen Jeremy KRIKLER GMC reference no: 264'.
Please review this decision, as I believe the exemption has been applied wrongly. Note that I am not requesting personal information.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/r...
Yours faithfully,
S Ahmed
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Dear General Medical Council,
This is to remind you that under the FOI Act you have a statutory duty to disclose Stephen Krikler's registration status. Please also provide details of his license to practice introduced by Peter Rubin,
Yours faithfully,
S Ahmed
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Dear General Medical Council,
I still await your reply about the registration status of Stephen Krikler? Is it true that with your complicity has a private practice?
Yours faithfully,
S Ahmed
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