The Wakefield Affair and Meadow Syndrome at the GMC: an Open Letter to the President

By John Stone

The GMC hearing against Andrew Wakefield, John Walker-Smith and Simon Murch has finished hearing evidence. All that remains are for panel to hear final summaries next month, and to give its final adjudication sometime in the early summer. It is apparently not possible to address representations to the panel so this letter is addressed to GMC president, Sir Graeme Catto.

Dear Sir Graeme,

I write at this late stage of the GMC hearing against Andrew Wakefield, John Walker-Smith and Simon Murch to draw your further attention to procedural failings in the conduct of the case by the GMC, that the GMC has been politically manipulated, and the central charges are “trumped-up” fabrications which should never have been brought. I would particularly like to highlight the horrific manipulation of the truth, which has a vile ideological tinge to it - redolent of the theories of Dr Meadow and Dr Southall - that the three doctors were engaged in the invention of symptoms of the patients, and instigating uncalled-for interventions. But I would also like to re-visit the political circumstances in which this prosecution was brought.