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- Post published:22 April 2025
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Just Stop Oil doctor’s fitness to practise ‘impaired’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1vw4k9qn29o
A tribunal has found a doctor’s fitness to practise to be impaired due to misconduct after she was involved in a number of Just Stop Oil protests.
Dr Sarah Benn, a GP in Birmingham until 2022, was arrested after taking part in demonstrations at the Kingsbury oil terminal in Warwickshire.
The General Medical Council (GMC) said the proceedings were not brought as a reaction to her participation in protests, but the fact that her actions broke the law and resulted in her imprisonment.
The tribunal said it must now consider what sanction, if any, to impose on the doctor’s registration.
Dr Benn said as a doctor, she had a moral duty to take action to protect life and health and that the climate emergency was a health emergency which was “happening now”.
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Doctors protest medical regulator’s inaction on climate
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/doctors-protest-medical-regulators-inaction-climate Many articles from Morning Star featured today.
DOCTORS linked to the Planetary Health Coalition demonstrated outside the General Medical Council (GMC) today against its failure to address the devastating impact that climate change has on public health.
In a theatrical protest, health workers queued at a “moral injury unit” to present complaints about their difficulties witnessing the effects of the climate emergency.
Protesters placed a giant red whistle outside the regulatory bodies’ offices, urging the organisation to sound the alarm on the impact of environmental destruction, and to integrate these concerns into its ethical standards.
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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/doctors-protest-medical-regulators-inaction-climate Many articles from Morning Star featured today.