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2 The News, Friday, July 3, 2009 GMC: Consultant backs accused doctor INoS!DE GP’s care

Total dedication four elderly Jennifer’s tireless devotion to charity :!!!’i PAGE 23 ~ ...... ’ge erally sensible’ pain of by Clare Semke Health reporter Shoppmg THE doctor accused of misconduct over ¯ The hearing into the fitness to prac- PAGE 7 the deaths of 12 elderly hospital patients tice of Dr Barton - who denies serious has been praised for her standard of care. professional misconduct - is set to last SPORT Dr Jane Tandy told a General Medical until at least August 21. Council hearing she was happy with GP It comes after an inquest jury at ROB Jane Barton’s care at Gosport War Portsmouth Coroner’s Court in April Memorial Hospital and said the decisions heard that the deaths of five patients at STYLES she made were ’generally sensible’. the Gosport War Memorial Hospital The consultant geriatrician worked on were ’more than minimally’ contributed Referee the now defunct Dryad ward, where Dr to by the medication given. vows never Barton was then clinical assistant, from In three cases they found the use of June 1994 to September 1996. painkiilers was inappropriate. to blow She gave evidence on day 18 of the hear- But they also ruled the medication ing into Dr Barton’s fitness to practice. had been administered for therapeutic whistle again Allegations centre on poor notekeep- reasons in all five cases and that med- PAGE 52 ing, wide dose ranges of powerful drugs ication had not contributed to a further including Diamorphine - a form of heroin five deaths. REGULARS - sedatives and antipsychotics. The GP - a partner at Forton Medical Dr Tandy told the London hearing: ’I Centre, Whites Place, Gosport - was World news 4 We Can Do It 22 was very happy with her care. clinical assistant on now defunct Dryad Opinions 6 TakeABreak 30 ’I thought the decisions she made were and Daedalus wards where the patients Nostalgia 7 Essentials 37 generally sensible.’ died between 1996 and 1999. Dr Barton could be banned from Agenda 8 Classifieds 42 But when asked about time pressures on Dr Barton, who juggled the day-to-day practising medicine if found guilty by How to... 10 Public Notices 45 running of the Gosport War Memorial the General Medical Council, wards with her job as a partner at Forton TELEVISION - PAGE 28 Medical Centre, she said: ’I think the And Dr Barton has agreed her notes thing I remember most was I didn’t feel were ’inappropriate’ and not in patients’ the notekeeping was a high standard, but best interests. Click on to it was more important that she saw the The panel is examining her conduct in portsmouth,co,uk patients. relation to the care, treatment and subse- Latest news+extended weather+ ’From patients referred in from other quent deaths of Geoffrey Packman complete listings and much more... hospitals her standard of notekeeping (known as Mick), Ruby Lake, 84, Robert didn’t seem to be out of the ordinary.’ Wilson, 74, Elsie Devine, 88, Leslie ! Dr Barton has already admitted that Pittock, 82, Elsie Lavender, 88, Arthur ! The News dose ranges of powerful drugs she pre- Cunningham, 79 (known as Brian), Enid t The News Centre, Hilsea, scribed were too wide, and could have led Spurgeon, 92, Alice Wilkie, Jean Stevens, Portsmouth, Hants PO2 9SX ( to elderly patients being given too many 73, Eva Page and Gladys Richards, 9]. / Tel: (023) 9266 4488 drugs. 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