Adverse Clinical Incidents
EDM number 22 in 1999-00, proposed by Frank Cook on 17/11/1999.
That this House applauds the degree of diligence displayed by the Health Committee in researching its forthcoming report Adverse Clinical Incidents; commends the membership which, under the chairmanship of the honourable Member for Wakefield, spent two days in Yorkshire actively interviewing more than 80 victims of seriously negligent medical care; registers grave concern at a system which permits doctors and surgeons to continue practising professionally, despite their having demonstrated repeatedly alarming levels of incompetence and ineptitude; notes with considerable anxiety that doctors and surgeons struck off in other countries have been allowed to return to this country and practise their negligence repeatedly on British patients, despite medical officials having been warned of their past record; condemns the hospital trust which sent one such surgeon on his way with ú100,000 severance settlement, a clean reference and a sum of ú57,000 for the purchase of his private consulting rooms; questions how a medical profession, which concerns itself with lack of funding, poor equipment and inadequate provision can protect and support colleagues so dangerous to patients placed in their care; calls upon the Secretary of State for Health to institute, at the earliest date, an effective means of monitoring the levels of efficacy in the performance of surgeons, physicians and practitioners in hospitals and clinics, both private and National Health Service throughout the United Kingdom; and furthermore to establish reliable international means of checking medical qualifications and performance records of all individuals seeking appointment or reappointment within the health services of this country.
This motion has been signed by a total of 27 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.
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