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Whistleblowing Legal Fund

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Good Day and thank you for visiting this site... I am Professor Ninian Peckitt and I am a Maxillofacial Surgeon. I was the first Clinician to use 3D Printing in the manufacture of Custom Implants in Facial Reconstruction, about 20 years ago, Our team managed to demonstrate the convertion of some very long complex operations into simple day case surgery. Engineering Assisted Surgery Our work has been subject to several Television Documentaries and I have been honoured to work with some of the best engineers on the planet. The industrial revolution comes to medicine: Engineering Assisted Surgery  Guest Speaker, Ninian Peckitt, speaks to the Melbourne TEDx group at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia at the Inaugural TEDx Conference January 17, 2009. I am also an NHS Whistleblower and have paid the ultimate price in defending a critically ill patient who was subject to a critical injury in hospital (2012). Following a major facial operation he fell out of bed (allegedly related to low nurse staffing levels) and this completely destroyed an 8 hr facial reconstruction operation. In fact the patient might have died as a result. The most worrying thing about this case is that documents confirm that all notes related to the fall have gone "missing". Furthermore it was discovered, through a Subject Access Order, that the Hospital denied all knowledge of the fall to the Department of Health. However, documents confirm that this is untrue. The fall had been documented and an investigation was planned, but there is no evidence that any investigation of this life threatening fall ever took place. Now there is no doubt that some doctors require investigation, suspension and even removal from the Register on the grounds of patient safety. This is not in dispute. But what is in dispute is aggressive targeting of doctors on issues with little or no relation to patient safety. I think everyone understands that some doctors are maliciously targeted by their employers. This has been admitted by Government. It can be relentless and even  dysfunctional, sometimes going on for decades. In some cases, this is more than harassment; it is pathological, organised, with fabricated allegations - sometimes of fantastical proportions. Records confirm that doctors have committed suicide on numerous occasions beacuse of this process. GMC records 28 suicides of Medical Doctors under Fitness to Practise Investigation between 2005-2013: http://www.gmc-uk.org/Internal_review_into_suicide_in_FTP_processes.pdf_59088696.pdf It is clear that some Doctors are targeted, not because of lack of competence, but in order to hide failings at NHS Trust Level. Managers are not held to account for patient abuse, it is the registered doctor who appears before the General Medical Council.  The Law intends, but does not, protect the doctor from this process. Targeting of Whistleblowers is still not a criminal offence in the United Kingdom. The doctor has no means of address when unfairly targeted. This is profoundly wrong and needs to be addressed in Law. In my own case, in an attempt to reduce this horrendously displaced fracture, I was accused of punching this patient to reduce the fracture 10 times over 10 minutes, by two non-medically qualified witnesses, when in fact records show that the fractures were reduced with traditional dental wiring and manual reduction. I was not advised of these allegations at the time and was not questioned, nor disciplined nor suspended, nor dismissed. In fact I was offered a new contract, which I declined. I knew absolutely nothing of these allegations until some 15 months later after I had left my post. But the really interesting thing, was that at the same time, I was one of 10 shortlisted finalists for an NHS Trust Award as Clinician of the Year 2012. Two anaesthetist witnesses, standing by my side during the surgery, stated that they saw no such event. Postoperative photographs (real evidence) show no evidence of punching; the fracture was reduced by wiring (not punching) and postoperative images show no bruising and no swelling, which would have been evident after repeated punching. Allegations by an "Expert Witness" of potential blindness in manual reduction of a plated facial fracture are not supported by the literature search of x4 international experts, who can not find a single case in the literature.  However, the General Medical Council and the General Dental Council, which are strong advocates of Evidence Based Medicine, both accepted the unverified "Expert Opinion", despite being advised no cases of blindness had ever been reported in the literature. Furthermore, the GMC refused to carry out their own literature search "on the grounds of cost" and this ultimately cost me my licence to practise.  I was concerned about the probity of the case and forwarded evidence to the Police, which recorded a Crime of Perverting the Course of Justice against the Hospital and also against the General Medical Council of Perverting the Course of Justice. This is historic. This recorded crime was never declared by the hospital nor the General Medical Council. The GMC suspended me. As I am dually qualified in Medicine and Dentistry, the General Medical Council then referred the case to the General Dental Council, which looked at the evidence and decided that there was no case to answer by evoking "Rule 10". This means they can reassess allegations placed before them and dismiss them if they see fit. The GDC wrote to the GMC advising them of their decision to close the case without sanctions. The GMC never made any acknowledgement nor declaration of the GDC Ruling, nor of the recorded crime of perverting the course of justice. The GMC continued with their Fitness to Practise hearing in full knowledge that their conduct was subject to a recorded police crime and they erased my name from the medical register. I was therefore in a situation where the GDC had ruled in my favour and the GMC had erased my name from the register. The GDC which had previously considered me fit to practise, then reopened the case, and erased my name from the Dental Register. My story is summarised in the Journal Dentistry The Untouchables and I would like to thank colleagues for support. The General Dental Council has been subject to a damning report in December 2015 by the Professional Standards Authority, Professional Standards Report on GDC 21 December 2015 which discovered serious irregularities in the GDC Fitness to Practice Procedures. Training of GDC Staff was seriously criticised. Rulings were edited in an unauthorised manner and even composed before the FTP hearings had taken place. In otherwords a Dental Surgeon could have been judged guilty before any FTP hearing took place. This is quite extraordinary and totally unacceptable in a Democracy. And yet no criminal action has been instigated against the GDC or any of its staff in relation to the PSA findings. Calls were made for the entire GDC Board to Resign by the British Dental Association BDJ Editorial: Whistling in the Dark and Lord Hunt calls on GDC to resign. These demands have fallen on Deaf Ears. It became evident that the GDC had no insight whatsoever into their failings and this is of serious concern for all of us who want to see Dentistry regulated effectively. Furthermore if the GDC is judged to be unfir for purpose by its peers this has important implication for past present and future rulings which may be overturned in the courts. My application to appeal the GMC Ruling of Erasure was ruled out of time, despite lodging court papers on time and being given a case number by the High Court. This appeal was made on the grounds that payment could not be collected by the Court from a valid foreign bank card. Currently I am appealing this decision to refuse a GMC Appeal in the Court of Appeal and I now have a legal team representing me. I need to raise £25,000 for a legal fund to fight this case, not just for myself, but to set a precedent for all doctors, who are trying to protect their patients, in an NHS, which is clearly putting Contracts before Patients. Funds are urgently required for Richard Clegg, Solicitor of GMS Law, Norwich, who is managing this case. Richard has filed an Appeal in the Court of Appeal and will coordinate the GMC Appeal, which, if successful, would make the current GDC Ruling untenable. As for the Police, they will not release any information about their investigations. We have no confirmation whether this case will be referred to the CPS and this is the subject of a referral to the Police Complaints Commissioner and the IPCC. We do know that the Trust GMC and GDC can be prosecuted in the Criminal Courts but there seems to be some difficulty in progress with this case. We also know that some hundred emails I sent to the police crime bureau went "missing" and were not received by the Officer designated to the case. Fortunately I was able to resend this eveidence, and I have received no definitive reply from the police about the case. This is disturbing and it may take a long time to determine whether this is another case of "Hillsborough Syndrome". It is my wish that, following the conclusion of my own case, we can apply for a Judicial Review to determine the legal tests at which point the targeting of an employee in the workplace becomes more than harassment - it becomes a Crime. For it is only then that the current Nelsonian Dishonesty of the State in condoned bullying can be addressed. And this can only be a good thing. For us all. So I am asking for help. My own funds are now exhausted and I wouldn't ask for assistance unless there was any other way...... I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping in this campaign which will pave the way to expose the Truth and to secure justice not just for my patient but for all patients. This can only help to ensure that patients and the doctors who care for them are treated with the dignity they deserve.

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