GMC now "has a stark choice to make: adapt or die". No other middle solution is workable

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The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service , a branch of the GMC had suspended Manchester GP ,Dr Manjola Arora from Indian origin for ‘dishonesty’ after telling IT department that she had been ‘promised’ a laptop in December 2019.

In Dr Arora Case MPTS tribunal took 8 days to determine that she had ‘exaggerated’ her claim of asking for a laptop worth of £250 and shamefully blamed her of being dishonest with impaired fitness to practise which cost £ 40,000 money by the MPTS from our subscription money for the luxurious treatment of bureaucrats, lawyers and Para legals of the GMC for staying in 5 star hotels, wine parties and 5 course meal and first class transportation cost on our money which is absolute waste of doctors annual subscription money . Approximately ( 3000,000 ) doctors are subscribers for the GMC,no accountability.
Dr Arora was blamed that she used the word that she was promised for one laptop to work out of hours duty by her boss and this resulted in her being found dishonest by the MPTS and thus being suspended after 8 days of unnecessary painful trail .

This, seems, that it was not a good in referral to the GMC & then GMC accepting such case and MPTS hearing to warrant medical suspension which is totally biased and &&discriminatory.
This is unfair, ludicrous , discriminatory and racial abuse against doctors belonging to the ethnic minority in routine to send the message to the wider medical community.
Simply apology by Mr Massey CEO of the GMC in this case would not be the return of Dr Aroras 16 months of agony , pain , uncertainty , feeling of guilt , psychological trauma and uncertainty she has been through for a £250 computer which put her into enormous stress and psychological trauma .

Work laptop is an essential piece of equipment, for the doctors who are not working locally. “This case, in conjunction with several previous concerning cases, raises serious concerns again the spectre of disproportionately ,discriminatory and unfair treatment to the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic medical population. This cannot be tolerated anymore.

GMC chief executive and registrar Charlie Massey said: this was a case where decisions we did not get right and for those I have apologised to Dr Arora.” But this is not sufficient to revert her 16 months of pain & agony.

Some 29 doctors have died while undergoing a GMC investigation, and five took their own lives between 2018 and 2020. More deaths
BMA :
These concerns were echoed by the British Medical Association (BMA), whose Council Chair Professor Philip Banfield described the report as "damning". He said: "This one case lays bare significant flaws in the GMC's fitness-to-practise processes and decision making against doctors belonging to ethnic minority treated differently than their white counterparts. “

"With investigation by the GMC and cross examination at tribunal being one of the most traumatic experiences a doctor can go through, it is unforgivable when this is done needlessly & punitive.

Prof Banfield noted that the review "underlines the urgent need for a more compassionate and supportive approach at every level", and stressed to safeguard health professionals.
Prof Banfield said: "As we have said before, this case appeared to be another example in the worrying trend of ethnic minority doctors facing disproportionate and different regulatory action who feel routinely discriminated and racially abused at work place and by the GMC process."

GMC is a failing, dysfunctional organisation "that serves only itself",if the GMC was subject to public scrutiny in the same way that the Care Quality Commission assesses healthcare organisations and general practices, it would be rated cruel and discriminatory with inadequate and biased approach which needs complete overhaul of it’s FTP directorate .

The GMC has been given the opportunity to reform itself for over 30 years since medical act 1983 but it has rather gone worst and have gone totally out of control and feels not answerable to anyone.

The gulf between the GMC and Doctors is now so great that the only solution is for it to be placed in special measures so that a new organisation can be created that can truly represent the needs of patients , public safety and doctors."

“ The GMC has become an adversarial organisation, where lawyers and bureaucrats are pitted against doctors, where success is seen in conviction rates rather than better outcomes for patients, and where discrimination is so institutionalised that it is almost impossible to amend it .

BMA chief Editor Dr Abbasi wrote, that
Legislative changes are now needed to force the GMC to become accountable to public , patients and since, "other than through the courts, there seems no clear and transparent way for the public to hold the GMC to account."
GMC now "has a stark choice to make: adapt or die".
No other middle solution is workable as doctors and patient have lost its faith & trust on the GMC completely.

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