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Sheffield Today are reporting: Specialist caught with pants down
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A SHEFFIELD foot specialist who was literally caught with his trousers down and allegedly kept pornographic material in a clinic been struck off.
Vere Thorpe, who worked for the Sheffield South West NHS Primary Care Trust, had denied the allegations against him.
But the Health Professions Council's conduct committee found he had "displayed unusual unacceptable behaviour" and believed he was "doing something untoward" when found with his trousers down.
The committee was told that at the Pitsmoor Surgery Mr Thorpe, who was employed as a Senior II Podiatrist by Sheffield South West NHS Primary Care Trust from November, 2003 until he resigned in October, 2004, was caught by a receptionist with his trousers down.
The receptionist went to a treatment room to tell him a patient had arrived and found the door jammed.
She pushed it open and saw him with his trousers around his ankles. He claimed he had been treating his leg after accidentally cutting it with a scalpel.
In another incident, pornographic material was found in a treatment room at the Woodhouse Clinic.
And it was alleged he had KY lubricating jelly in the treatment room at the Woodhouse Clinic when there was no clinical or professional reason for him to do so, and had also left jelly in a public toilet there.
Mr Thorpe was cleared of having the jelly in a treatment room but the the committee accepted he left jelly in a public toilet.
Other allegations included claims he had reported sick and had then carried out a private clinic, failed to complete a record card on a patient, failed to prepare a medical history, failed to carry out a proper assessment on a patient and had not prepared a care plan.
The committee was told another foot specialist came across a pornographic magazine partially hidden under some papers in a clinic cupboard, which was not regularly used.
After Mr Thorpe resigned, an explicit flyer advertising a subscription to a pornographic magazine was discovered in his papers.
A pornographic magazine was found in the chiropody room waste bin.
Mr Thorpe claimed he found a magazine behind a toilet and put it in the chiropody room cupboard and then in the bin because he didn't know what to do with it.
At our staff meeting yesterday i did a 10 min presentation on the correct use of our pt tt paperwork.
I used this chap as an example.
I WENT THROUGH ALL THE TRANSCRIPT OF THE HPC HEARING.
I then added that it was his failure to use the depts paperwork correctly and fully and to follow dept guidelines that got him struck off.
NOT his alleged and unsubstantiated conduct .
it would appear that this fellow had a problem.
What was funny was that a female colleague stated that KY jelly is in all our clinics as we occassionally use it as a medium for ultrasound and as a medium for lubricant purposes. This is very rarely though.
I shudder to think how the podiatrist in question must be feeling after reading the lurid headines propogated by the press and media and I can't help but wonder just how John Prescott or Mark Oaten would fare if they were registrants of the HPC instead of being simply a Deputy Prime Minister or a Member of Parliament with responsibilities of governance....
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"citing an indisposition due to special circumstances"
Although the HPC make a great drama out of striking people off the register, the truth is that they are little more than toothless tigers as far as podiatry and some other professions are concerned.In our profession capable of operating in the private sector all you do is reinvent yourself as foot health professional and carry on as usual.Not only that, under the present stupid rules of the HPC a registrant may be employed by the person who has been struck to carry out anaesthetics leaving them to do minor surgery.What is really dishonest is that they this in full public gaze for the "protection of the public".My question to the HPC is how can they say they are protecting the public when they so obviously don't.To date I've had no reply.
Podiatrist struck off - "displayed unusual unacceptable behaviour"
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