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The Defendant’s Evidence: Professor Melville
The Defendant’s Evidence: Professor Melville
Professor Melville is a former consultant in emergency and intensive care medicine. He ceased clinical practice in January 2017 when he commenced his current role at the defendant as Lead for the GMC’s Education and Standards Directorate. He has provided three statements in response to the claim.
- Heading
- Mrs Justice Lambert DBE
- Background
- The Statutory Framework
- The 2024 Order
- Good Medical Practice and other guidance and advice issued by the GMC
- Supervision
- Claimants’ Evidence of Risk to Patient Safety
- Coroners’ investigations and Prevention of Future Death reports
- Mr Benedict Peters
- Mrs Pamela Ann Marking
- The Defendant’s Evidence: Professor Melville
- Scope of Practice and Supervision
- Ground 1
- Grounds 1(a) and 1(c): Scope of Practice and Supervision of Associates
- Ground 1(c): the Supervision and Delegation issue
- Ground 1: Discussion/Conclusion The scope of Ground 1: process and outcome rationality
- Ground 1(a) and Ground 1(c): process irrationality
- Outcome Irrationality
- Ground 1(b): Informed Consent
- Ground 1(b): Discussion/Conclusion
- Ground 2: Tameside duty of inquiry
- Ground 2 Discussion
- Conclusions