A group of health professionals have expressed concern to the General Medical Council (“GMC”) about the use of GMC referrals against doctors speaking out about the safety of the covid-19 injections.
They highlighted cases of doctors facing fitness to practise investigations and job losses due to their public expression of safety concerns. And they urged the GMC to protect whistle-blowers reporting covid-19 vaccine harms.
In response, GMC Chair Professor Carrie MacEwen said that healthcare needs a culture where doctors can feel they can speak out about concerns for patient safety.
However, in their response to Prof. MacEwen, the group expressed the lack of reassurance among doctors regarding protection when raising patient concerns and raised the online harassment and death threats that doctors receive for raising concerns about the safety of covid injections – which is a concern for patient safety.
These concerns are often expressed online because doctors are being ignored when they raise them through the official channels. And, despite a doctor’s right to freedom of expression being upheld in the High Court, the GMC continues to investigate reports referred to them of doctors who express concerns about vaccine safety online.
Prof. MacEwen responded again but failed to adequately address the points raised by the doctors.
“It is hard to dispel the feeling among dissident doctors that there is a target over their heads, with certain hostile actors itching to find any excuse for a GMC referral,” the HART Group said.
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