August 2001
Reform calls after GP abuse scandal
BBC News 30 August, 2001
Health service failures allowed a doctor to continue abusing patients for more than a decade, a report has concluded.
The standards watchdog behind it is now demanding changes to the way complaints are monitored in the NHS.
Weaknesses in the complaints system throughout the 1980s and for most of the 1990s meant that Dr Peter Green's litany of sex assaults on young men was not halted, claims the Commission for Health Improvement.
Doctor's abuse leads to call for register of complaints
The Guardian August 31, 2001
The government's health watchdog called yesterday for a national register of NHS complaints, after exposing a "culture of complacency" that had allowed a Leicestershire family doctor to abuse young male patients for 12 years.
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