Procedure? What procedure? And more backlash!
Last week, I received a letter from the GCC:
Quacklash Backlash!
It’s really quite simple. The GCC Code of Practice requires all chiropractors to hold the appropriate level of evidence for any claim they make. If and when a chiropractor receives a complaint about those claims, all the chiropractor has to do is send that evidence to the GCC. The GCC will no doubt then not uphold the complaint against them and they can get on with what they were doing.
Who’s been blogging on chiroquacktic? After the ‘plethora’.
Rather than add to my ever-growing list of those blogging on the BCA vs Simon Singh case, I thought that the publication of the BCA’s ‘plethora’ yesterday was a good place to start a new list.
Moving the goalposts (Part One)
In yet another leaked letter (UNUSUAL CIRCUMSTANCES BRIEFING NOTE FOR CHIROPRACTIC PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS 15 JUNE 2009) from the GCC, they want the Privy Council Office to expedite something called a ‘section 60 Order’:
Email #2 from the GCC
Email #2 from the GCC, received earlier today:
The GCC respond: email #2 – we need copies of everything
Email #2 from the GCC:
First Contact!
I got the following from the GCC yesterday:
Thank you for your letter. A member of staff who deals with the administration of complaints will be in touch with you within two working days with full details of our process for dealing with complaints. In the meantime please be assured that the GCC will not disclose your details to anyone other than the respondent chiropractor in each case. This will not happen until the relevant stage in the process, which will be set out in the full details my colleague will be sending to you.
Yours sincerely
Margaret Coats
Chief Executive & Registrar
At least we know they received my complaint (if we didn’t know already).
Don’t panic, Mr Mainwaring!
“They don’t like it up ’em” also springs to mind from the excellent and much-loved seventies TV series Dad’s Army.
Dad’s Army were a comical bunch of misfits — a parody of the real everyday heroes of the Home Guard.
In a completely different world, it looks like my 523 complaints to the General Chiropractic Council (GCC) have had some effect already. I’ve not even received an acknowledgement from the GCC, but we all know they got it! Not only got it, but someone leaked it outside of the GCC. Or maybe they were stalking me in the Internet?
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