Nhs Con Woman

[fender62]

i wonder how rare this con is, and how much vetting there is.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6403771/Urgent-background-checks-ordered-3-000-doctors.html

[Mamyalynne]

I hope it is rare, all documentation and qualifications should be thoroughly checked.

[Spicerack]

5 years for this thing. Should have had 50.

[fender62]

imagine if it were a surgeon, even a doctor prescribing medication.

[ummmm]

She was prescribing meds! And sectioning people. Unbelievable...

[Theland]

Not surprised. Incompetent NHS and too trusting of immigrants.
Come across a few doctors and nurses that I trusted and thought them incompetent. Train our own?

[malagabob]

It’s surprising what qualifications and diplomas you can get on the Internet

[rowanwitch]

They had a dodgy orthopaedic surgeon in Essex I remember. Mostly because he operated on my ex. Found out later only qualified to house officer level .lovely bloke, and had really good results but had no right to be lifting a scalpel

[Sqad]

She seemed to have done OK in Psychiatry which tells you more about Psychiatry than her. I think, considering the lack of staff in Mental Health, she should still be allowed to practice.
Foreign doctors in Mental health will always be encouraged.......UK doctors will fight shy of an unpopular specialty.

[kvalidir]

I have been giving Psychiatry or Psychology a long hard think actually Sqad, certainly if I was going to do anything else it would be that.

[Baldric]

fender @ 01:20
From the Link, no need to imagine
/// It meant that for more than two decades from 1995, Alemi was free to treat thousands of mental health patients in the NHS, apparently prescribing medicine ///

[moggymay]

Kvaladir

To become a doctor specializing in psychiatry you'll need to complete: a 5-year degree in medicine, recognized by the General Medical Council (GMC) a 2-year foundation programme of general training followed by 6-year specialist training programme in psychiatry.

To be a psychologist you need to do a British Psychological Society (BPS) accredited degree in psychology leading to Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership (GBC) of the BPS.
Following that work experience in the specialism you want to work in and a BPS accredited postgraduate qualification relating to your chosen specialism.

Two very different pathways.

[youngmafbog]

This is no surprise. The NHS is run by a bloated and totally incompetent management.

[gness]

During a meeting following a complaint against a nurse I asked if she was qualified.
The head chap was indignant....he knew all his staff and every member was qualified....he ran a very professional and excellent team.

During our next meeting I couldn't resist mentioning the doctor on his team who'd just been arrested for....posing as a doctor.

It won't surprise me what comes out of these checks...

[retrocop]

Granted this article is 10 years old but apparently lessons have not been learnt.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/bogus-nurses-slip-through-nhs-net-1160119.html

[kvalidir]

I know Moggymay, in reality I think it would be too binding for me as I'd have to jump one side of the pond or the other full time and I've got the best of both worlds at the moment, plus I have work obligations at least next year and possibly for the next three years, so I'd be well into my thirties by then if indeed I did decide to jack all this in. x

[Sqad]

moggymay

"of general training followed by 6-year specialist training programme in psychiatry. "

LOl..LOL...sorry for my levity, it would be a matter of "forget the training, when can you start?"

[Peter Pedant]

I am surprised S has not mentioned
'Mine Own Executioner' Nigel Balchin

Our hero passes 2ndMB but doesnt complete his medical course and goes straight for psychology. The book is set around someone in his care who commits suicide....

Nurses are registered by the NMC - nursing and midwifery council
all these are self financing - 300 000 docgtors [aying around £500 a year - jesus that IS £150m a year innit - easily enough to check a foreign registration....

The NMC had a £60m deficit and asked the govt to step in. Govt pays then Govt says what goes:
https://www.nursingtimes.net/roles/nurse-managers/review-concludes-nmc-is-failing-at-every-level/5046648.article

[bainbrig]

Yes but at least she was WHITE, Just imagine if she’d been... doesn’t bear thinking about. (Not that you do).

[naomi24]

^Clearly you do.