>At my IRP hearing everything seemed to go fine until the report was
>produced which was inaccurate and unfairly critical, especially
>considering that the complainants did not even turn up to the IRP
>meeting.
>
My experience at a Service Committee years ago may be relevant. We were
advised to assume that the Panel members had read the papers and would
understand the issues invoved, in a case which was quite clear-cut. The
panel members had clearly *not* read the papers properly, and one of the
GPs, with whom I had had altercations at the local half day release course
when I was a GP trainee and he was a course organiser, treated the hearing
as if I was a trainee and I was in a tutorial, refusing to listen properly
to my evidence. I felt very angry at the time, but thankfully the case was
thrown out on a technicality (complaint was over the time limits, which
should have been seen by the panel members if they'd bothered to read the
paperwork), and I felt it was not worth trying to complain.
The point I am coming to, is to assume that all the panel members have never
looked for one microsecond at the paperwork. Present your case in minute
detail, however long it takes, spelling out everything, even if it is all in
your written submission. Don't assume for one minute that the doctors on the
panel have any degree of medical intelligence - explain everything as if
everyone on the panel was a lay person.
Laurie Miles
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