I am aghast! Who in their right mind want to be a patient of such docto
I am elderly but not as old as the ones she killed.
We all have a ime limite time on this earth and doctors have no right to take that away! Socrates Oath spprings to mind!!
She is a killer and must have her licence removed!
hexiw
11:47pm UK, Friday January 29, 2010
Jo Couzens, Sky News Online
A doctor who prescribed “potentially hazardous” levels of drugs to elderly patients who later died has escaped being struck off, to the disgust of their relatives
A fitness to practise panel at the General Medical Council found Dr Jane Barton made a catalogue of failings in her treatment of 12 patients at a Hampshire hospital.
The doctor issued “excessive, inappropriate and potentially hazardous” drugs at Gosport War Memorial Hospital between January 1996 and November 1999, the panel ruled.
Robert Wilson, 74, Eva Page, 87, Alice Wilkie, 81, Gladys Richards, 91, Leslie Pittock, 82, Elsie Lavender, 83, Ruby Lake, 84, Enid Spurgeon, 92, Geoffrey Packman, 67, Elsie Devine, 88, Arthur Cunningham, 79, and Jean Stevens, 73, all died on wards where Dr Barton worked as a clinical assistant.
Panel chairman Andrew Reid said: “There have been instances when Dr Barton’s acts and omissions have put patients at increased risk of premature death.”
But Dr Barton will be allowed to continue working as a doctor despite being found guilty of serious professional misconduct.
The patients’ families have reacted furiously to the decision and walked out of the hearing in central London in disgust.
Iain Wilson, son of Robert Wilson, was the first to leave the room, shouting: “You should hang your head in shame.”
Speaking outside the GMC building, he said: “People (in Gosport) cannot believe that she’s not already been struck off.”
Ann Reeves, the daughter of Elsie Devine, 88, said: “It’s a total disgrace. What does GMC stand for? Gross Medical Cover-up and nothing more. I’m in total shock.”
She called for a public inquiry and said some 200 letters of support for Dr Barton should not have been allowed as evidence.
Bridget Reeves, 32, Elsie Devine’s granddaughter, said: “There is no doubt in my mind that my grandmother shouldn’t have died in the way that she did.
“And it’s Jane Barton who has to be held accountable for that.”
Dr Barton, who has been working as a GP in Gosport, will be allowed to continue working if she abides by certain conditions.
After the ruling, Dr Barton said in a statement: “I am disappointed by the decision of the GMC panel.
She called for a public inquiry and said some 200 letters of support for Dr Barton should not have been allowed as evidence.
Bridget Reeves, 32, Elsie Devine’s granddaughter, said: “There is no doubt in my mind that my grandmother shouldn’t have died in the way that she did.
“And it’s Jane Barton who has to be held accountable for that.”
Dr Barton, who has been working as a GP in Gosport, will be allowed to continue working if she abides by certain conditions.
After the ruling, Dr Barton said in a statement: “I am disappointed by the decision of the GMC panel.
“But I appreciate that in imposing conditions, they recognised the great difficulties and unreasonable pressure under which I had to work.
“Anyone following this case carefully will know that I was faced with an excessive and increasing burden in trying to care for patients at the Gosport War Memorial Hospital.
“I did the best I could for my patients in the circumstances until finally I had no alternative but to resign.”
Niall Dickson, chief executive of the GMC, said: “Our view was the doctor’s name should have been erased from the medical register following the panel’s finding of serious professional misconduct.
“We will be carefully reviewing the decision before deciding what further action, if any, may be necessary.”
Liberal Democrat health spokesman Norman Lamb described the decision as “utterly extraordinary”, branding it an “abject failure of the system to protect patients”.
“Surely it cannot be right, given the deaths of many elderly people at Gosport War Memorial Hospital and the findings of failures on the part of Dr Barton, that she should be permitted to continue to practise?”
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/ 02/01/2010I think that board who did the review, needs investigating….the results don’t sound right….some shady dealings must have occurred for them to allow her to keep practicing medicine…