{"id":520,"date":"2019-06-12T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/2019-6-14-samantha-batt-rawden-for-the-bmj-a-change-of-tone-from-the-gmcbut-can-they-win-back-doctors-trust\/"},"modified":"2019-06-12T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T19:30:00","slug":"2019-6-14-samantha-batt-rawden-for-the-bmj-a-change-of-tone-from-the-gmcbut-can-they-win-back-doctors-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/2019-6-14-samantha-batt-rawden-for-the-bmj-a-change-of-tone-from-the-gmcbut-can-they-win-back-doctors-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"Samantha Batt-Rawden for the BMJ: A change of tone from the GMC\u2014but can they win back doctors\u2019 trust?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our Chair Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden shares her view in the BMJ after interviewing Charlie Massey for a documentary Sammy presented on BBC Radio 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week I had the opportunity to interview Charlie Massey, the chief executive of the General Medical Council (GMC), for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m0005t3h\">BBC Radio 4 documentary<\/a> on why doctors are leaving the NHS. It didn\u2019t start well. I found myself on a train to Portsmouth instead of London having been up most of the night; proof that tired doctors do indeed make mistakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Generously Charlie did meet with me, some hour and a half late. I felt it was crucial that we acknowledge the impact that the blame culture has had on recruitment and retention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was surprised and encouraged, when Massey admitted publicly that the decision to take Hadiza Bawa-Garba to the High Court to have her erased from the medical register was wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To me, this was an incredible acknowledgement from the GMC. But I have no doubt that doctors will be asking: why did it take so long?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full article in the BMJ:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/06\/12\/a-change-of-tone-from-the-gmc-but-can-they-win-back-doctors-trust\/\">https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/06\/12\/a-change-of-tone-from-the-gmc-but-can-they-win-back-doctors-trust\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Chair Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden shares her view in the BMJ after interviewing Charlie Massey (chief executive GMC) for a documentary Sammy presented on BBC Radio 4. In this interview Charlie Massy admits for the first time that his decision to take Dr Bawa-Garba to the Hight Court to have her struck off was incorrect.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[109,64,80,154,221,54,116,49],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learn-not-blame","tag-learnnotblame","tag-article","tag-bawa-garba","tag-bmj","tag-charlie-massey","tag-dr-samantha-batt-rawden","tag-gmc","tag-learn-not-blame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}