Dr Skinner's Review Hearing GMC - 14th to 18th November

[Guest guest]

As most of you will be aware, Dr Skinner's review hearing with the General Medical Council, following the adjournment in July, will now run from Monday the 14th November to Friday the 18t November – a total of 5 days.

As before, the hearing will be held in Manchester starting at 9.00a.m. St 's Building, 79 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 6FQ.

To help back Dr Skinner and to show the GMC Panel how much thyroid patients throughout the UK need him, please could you consider attending as many of the above days as possible - this carries so much weight. Also if you or family and friends haven't had a chance to do so yet, please send in your testimonials in support of Dr Skinner to the addresses given below. The reason that these are needed is because the testimonials which everyone sent for the FTP in 2007 will not be included in the evidence submitted for this hearing, so new ones are urgently needed.

Although I have never been a patient of Dr Skinners, I felt the need to send a testimonial on behalf of all those thousands of patients being refused a diagnosis within the NHS because their serum thyroid function test results are within the normal reference interval, or being denied the correct thyroid hormone for their particular needs, and being left to suffer so unnecessarily. Such patients are being forced into seeking out doctors such as Dr Skinner to help them recover their normal health again. Without him, and other great doctors like him who disagree with mainstream protocol, there would be many more thousands being left suffering. Perhaps if you are not a patient of Dr Skinner's, this is something you may consider doing, not only to help your fellow sufferers, but more than anything, to help Dr Skinner.

For ease of reference the relevant persons and addresses to send testimonials to are:-

Cook, Investigation Officer, Fitness to Practise Directorate, General Medical Council, 3 Hardman Street, Manchester, M3 3AW

… copied to Dr Afshan Ahmad 22 Alcester Road, Moseley, Birmingham B13 8BE

…and toMr Ralph Shipway RadcliffesleBrasseur [solicitors], 5 Great College Street, Westminster, London, SW1P 3SJ,

Please pass this information on to any supporters of Dr Skinner – and many thanks again to you all and I hope to see you at the GMC in Manchester

Sheila

Thyroiod Patient Advocate www.tpa-uk.org.uk .