Fahmida Khanam · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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Issued 22 Jan 2025•West Yorkshire Eastern

Published report and response evidence

This report’s concerns and statements found in recipients’ published responses. Statements are included even where no link to an individual concern is recorded. A link shows an evidence connection; it does not assign responsibility.

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Concerns
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Raised in this report

Recipients
2

Named on the report

Responses found
2

Of 2 recipients

Stated actions
1

Described in responses

Recipients and published responses

Full report text

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Concerns and recipient responses

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Concerns raised1

  1. Failure to avoid doctors treating close relatives

Stated actions An action is something a recipient says it has done, is doing, or plans to do in response to a concern raised.1

  1. Saville Town Medical Centre

    Adopt a protocol preventing GPs from treating immediate family members, in accordance with GMC and Good Medical Practice guidelines.

Respondent positions A position is what a recipient says about a concern when it does not describe a specific action.1

  1. General Medical Council

    The guidance does not prohibit doctors from treating close relatives; it advises avoiding this where possible, subject to professional judgement and circumstances.

    Disputes the concernThe respondent disagreed with part of the concern or the basis for it.

Source evidence

How this individual concern was interpreted

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PFD Monitor interpretation

Failure to avoid doctors treating close relatives

Wider context from the report

“The matter is reported as it is understood to be a cardinal principle that a doctor should not treat a close relative. ”

Is this part of a recurring concern?

No recurring-concern membership is currently published.

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Source evidence

How this respondent action was interpreted

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PFD Monitor interpretation

Adopt a protocol preventing GPs from treating immediate family members, in accordance with GMC and Good Medical Practice guidelines.

Verbatim wording from the response

“However, I have discussed this with the GP partner and management, on how to avoid this happening again in the future. The practice is to adopt a protocol/procedure immediately to ensure a GP must not treat immediate family members according to GMC guidelines and current Good Medical Practice guidelines.”

Source location

Response from Saville Town Medical Centre
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Published 22 January 2025

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How this respondent position was interpreted

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PFD Monitor interpretation

The guidance does not prohibit doctors from treating close relatives; it advises avoiding this where possible, subject to professional judgement and circumstances.

Verbatim wording from the response

“On the specific concern that you highlight, in paragraph 97 of that guidance, we say ‘You must, wherever possible, avoid providing medical care to yourself or anyone with whom you have a close personal relationship’. You go on to point registrants to the more detailed guidance on Good practice in proposing, prescribing, providing and managing medicines and devices and in particular paragraphs 66 to 68 regarding record keeping and the issues around prescribing controlled drugs.”

Source location

Response from General Medical Council
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Published 22 January 2025

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