§ Mr. Austin-WalkerTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of whether the actions of the Greenwich and Bexley family health services authority were appropriate and satisfacory in dealing with complaints against the doctor concerned in the recent case raised with her by the hon. Member for Woolwich; and whether the actions of the General Medical Council were appropriate and satisfactory in dealing with the complaints.
§ Dr. MawhinneyIt would not be right to comment on the actions of Greenwich and Bexley family health services authority in this case until proceedings to which the family health services authority is a party have been formally concluded.
The General Medical Council is an independent statutory body whose constitution and functions are governed by the Medical Act 1983. The council has sole
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See Suffragan See Bishop Date of appointment Bath and Wells Taunton John Lewis 3 July 1992 Birmingham Aston John Austin 3 September 1992 Blackburn Lancaster John Nicholls 25 April 1990 Bristol Malmesbury Peter Firth 30 November 1983 Canterbury Dover Richard Llewellin 9 October 1992 Maidstone Gavin Reid 9 October 1992 Carlisle Penrith George Hacker 10 October 1979 Chelmsford Barking Roger Sainsbury 17 January 1991 Colchester Michael Vickers 2 February 1988 Bradwell Laurence Green 23 February 1993 Chester Birkenhead Michael Langrish 2 March 1993 Stockport Frank Sargeant 25 January 1984 Chichester Horsham Lindsay Urwin 30 November 1993 Lewes Ian Cundy 3 July 1992 Coventry Warwick Clive Handford 5 December 1990 Derby Repton Henry Richmond 30 January 1986 Durham Jarrow Alan Smithson 21 September 1990 Ely Huntington Gordon Roe 1 November 1980 Exeter Crediton Peter Coleman 2 July 1984 Plymouth Richard Hawkins 29 June 1988 Gloucester Tewkesbury Jeremy Walsh 29 January 1986 Guildford Dorking David Wilcox 1 February 1986 Hereford Ludlow Ian Griggs 1 August 1987 Lichfield Shrewsbury John Davies 5 February 1987 Stafford Michael Scott-Joynt 1 September 1987 Wolverhampton Michael Bourke 29 September 1993 Lincoln Grantham William Ind 23 October 1987 Grimsby David Tustin 25 January 1979 Liverpool Warrington Michael Henshall 1 February 1976 London Fulham John Klyberg 25 March 1985 Kensington John Hughes 26 October 1987 Stepney Richard Chartres 22 May 1992 Willesden Graham Dow 22 May 1992 Edmonton Brian Masters 20 December 1984 Manchester Hulme Colin Scott 13 September 1984 Bolton David Bonser 13 September 1991 Norwich Thetford Hugo de Waal 17 January 1992 Oxford Buckingham Simon Burrows 18 October 1974 Dorchester Anthony Russell 2 February 1988 Reading John Bone 4 October 1989 Peterborough Brix worth Paul Barber 25 January 1989 Ripon Knaresborough Malcolm Menin 2 December 1986 Rochester Tonbridge Brian Smith 2 November 1993 St. Albans Hertford Robin Smith 25 January 1990 St. Edmunds and Ipswich Dunwich Jonathan Bailey 3 December 1992 Salisbury Ramsbury Peter Vaughan 21 April 1989 Sherborne John Kirkham 1 December 1976 Sheffield Doncaster Michael Gear 2 March 1993 Southwark Kingston Martin Wharton 3 November 1992 Woolwich Peter Hall 29 November 1984 responsibility for the registration and regulation of the medical profession and it would not be appropriate for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health to intervene in the way that it carries out its responsibilities under the Act or to comment on individual cases in which the council has directed the removal of a doctor's name from the register.