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The GMC assured GPs last week that it had nearly won the battle to catch up on the two-year backlog of investigations. A rolling programme of administrative improvements and tough [...]

Complaints to the GMC are taking up to five years just to pass an initial administrative check that they fall within its remit. The delay means that complaints dating back [...]

The first retired GP to be investigated by the Health Service Ombudsman has been cleared of any blame. Ombudsman Sir Michael Buckley won the right last year to pursue doctors [...]

The discovery of more than 70 elephant tusks and animal skins in Brussels led to the arrest of 15 Mall-based Chinese doctors. The consignment, bound for China, would have been [...]

California has taken an aggressive approach to hunt down physicians who are writing prescriptions over the internet with only an online consultation. Earlier this month, the California Medical Board hired [...]

People are dying in California's hospitals because of medical errors. The continuing question is how many. The state's 575 acute-care hospitals reported 110 instances of serious discipline against doctors in [...]

When I saw the case of the Bristol paediatric surgeons, whose names were removed from the register after the deaths of several babies, reported on television I thought nothing of [...]

Complaints against doctors in the United Kingdom rose by 50% last year, said the General Medical Council. The figures were released as the GMC completed its blueprint for a proposed [...]

EDITOR--As an elected member of the General Medical Council who has just become a screener but who had no involvement with the Fergusson case, I disagree with the criticism by [...]

New proposals are ill thought out and more about politics than policy This week the British government announced a new agency, the National Clinical Assessment Authority, to work with doctors [...]

A consultant neurologist in Scotland who discussed a teenage patient with suspected Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in a television interview and revealed enough for a Sunday newspaper to identify her and [...]

The inquiry into the crimes of Harold Shipman, the general practitioner suspected of murdering up to 200 patients, will be held in public with full powers for the inquiry chairman [...]

Responsibility for investigating Israelis' complaints against doctors will be shifted from committees appointed by the health ministry to a special justice ministry panel, Israel's new health minister, Roni Milo, announced [...]

Relatives of victims of the English GP and serial killer Harold Shipman scored a decisive victory last week in their bid to force the health secretary, Alan Milburn, to hold [...]

Procedure for consent still leaves much to be desired EDITOR--As a patient advocate who attended the entire hearing of the case against gynaecologist Ian Fergusson, I was disappointed at the [...]

HHS' inspector general's office is investigating hospital 'givebacks' of physician practices, MODERN HEALTHCARE has learned. At issue is whether the low prices-or, in some cases, no price-physicians are paying hospitals [...]

Police are to hold a murder inquiry into the case of a doctor MP who mentioned during a parliamentary debate that he had withdrawn treatment from a 2 year old [...]

Three studies have found that many physicians will lie to obtain medically necessary coverage for their patients. In one study, whose findings were published in the October 25, 1999, issue [...]

To protect the Medicare program from fraud, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) told The New York Times, she and Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) are preparing legislation that would require criminal background [...]

Several South African doctors are considering taking action to force the Health Professions Council to initiate an investigation into the conduct of the doctor who headed up the apartheid government's [...]

HHS has long suspected that hospitals have underreported disciplinary actions against physicians to the National Practitioner Data Bank. The department now believes it has the evidence to make that underreporting [...]

The health service ombudsman for England, Scotland, and Wales, Michael Buckley, has warned doctors that in future he intends to name clinicians who refuse to accept his recommendations or who [...]

Jesse Jackson volunteered to travel to Israel to negotiate the release of California physician riad abdelkarim--but, after two weeks of detention on unspecified charges, Israel freed him on May 19. [...]

Physicians Investigated for Inappropriate Prescribing by the Oregon Board of Medical Examiners Increasing societal and professional demands for regulation have led to more monitoring of professional practices by various regulatory [...]

According to the victim, the incidents occurred on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons over a three- to four-month period during the mid-1970s. Jean Halliwell, now 55, a grandmother and owner of [...]

Nearly two thirds of professional conduct complaints languish for more than a year between committees because of an upsurge in the number of serious cases referred to the General Medical [...]

Neal Barnard, president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), takes issue with the way a statement about his group was phrased in a recent nation in brief column. [...]

Polish police hold doctors over alleged murder of patients: Polish police have detained seven people including doctors and paramedics on suspicion of being involved in a scam, in which patients [...]

In this country we have lately seen a legally-qualified medical practitioner prosecuted by the General Medical Council for calling himself a physician. But we are still behind France, where they [...]

doctor officerisk not fatalConsultant: Senate concerns of Y2K ignorance no safety threatThe health care industry recently was singled out by the U.S. Senate as one of the most ill-prepared for […]

HHS' inspector general's office has let the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and its physician group off the hook, ending its Physicians at Teaching Hospitals audit at the state's [...]

Physicians will have their day under the microscope of HHS' inspector general's office, according to the agency's 1999 work plan. That includes a planned probe into physician billing records that [...]