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According to recent sources from the BBC, disgraced surgeon David Jackson who was sacked back in 2007 following a string of complaints spanning potentially decades has caused further anger at being allowed to voluntarily remove himself from the medical register instead of being struck off.
According to sources, Mr Jackson has managed to evade hearings with the General Medical Council citing ill health which has left victims of his negligent practise in further distress at the time it has taken for the GMC to act.
East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust are said to have paid £651,000 to 15 of his former patients, and there are said to be more than 75 complaints against him ranging from cancer to plastic surgery cases. There has already been outrage after compensation settlements allegedly date as far back as 2002, yet he was allowed to continue practising up until 2007 when he was dismissed from his post.
But victims are not only questioning why it has taken so long for the GMC to act, but why he has been allowed voluntary erasure when clearly the volume and time span of these complaints should have dictated quicker action and the GMC striking him off. But sources state that Mr Jackson has allegedly been too unwell to attend any hearings.
Whilst we all can appreciate that the NHS is stretched so thin that concerns over standards of care are ringing through the media as more and more stories emerge of medical malpractise, there are some examples like Jackson’s where there appears to be such a clear lack of action leaving victims and onlookers scratching their heads. When complaints start racking up in such volumes, action needs to be taken.
The Trust has paid out more than half a million pounds in compensation from taxpayers money which could have been largely averted had action have been taken much sooner.
We specialise in all areas of personal injury and we have a dedicated team who fight for the rights of medical negligence victims on a daily basis. Medical negligence cases are inherently hard to win because it can be very difficult to determine, and prove, the difference between the unavoidable and clear mistakes. So in a case like this where there appears to have been red flags waving for potentially years, we ask the question – why wasn’t more done to have stopped all of this?
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