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David Southall is back on the medical
register

On Tuesday he was put back on

the medical register after judges
ruled the General Medical Council had not given adequate reasons for
striking him off.
The claim is that he accused a mother of drugging and murdering her
son.
The case has now been sent back to the General Medical Council
(GMC) panel, which will have to again consider the allegation that Dr
Southall made unjustified allegations about the mother, identified as
Mrs M.
Dr Southall has denied ever accusing her of murder or conducting an
interview with her - about the safety of her surviving son - in an
aggressive and hostile manner.
The panel took Dr Southall off the register in 2007, and at the time
said the paediatrician had a "deep-seated attitudinal problem".
It found that his actions had added
to the distress of Mrs M following
the death of her son, who hanged
himself in 1996.

[Paediatricians] need
support because this work is not
easy, it's almost dangerous for
doctors

Dr David Southall
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today
programme, Dr Southall said one of

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Dr Southall accused Mrs Clark's husband Steve of murdering the two

boys on the basis of a television interview.
At the time he was banned from child protection work for three years.
Further charges
In the most recent case Dr Southall had argued the GMC panel had
failed to give "any or adequate weight" to inconsistencies in Mrs M's
evidence, and that they did not understand what child protection work
involved.
Lord Justice Leveson, giving the Appeal Court ruling on Tuesday, said
he was "far from convinced" the case should be re-heard by the GMC
panel but conceded it was up to them to decide.
Niall Dickson, chief executive of the General Medical Council, said:
"Although the case has been remitted back to the original panel, it is
clear that the court has overruled the panel's finding in relation to Mrs
M.
"We accept that and will take immediate steps to resolve the
outstanding issues raised in the judgement."
The panel has also yet to consider what penalties should be imposed
on Dr Southall on other charges.
They relate to complaints over his clinical practice in maintaining
special case files separate from main hospital records.

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