You are right, I am definitely going to be contacting the AHPRA complaint board. To be honest, I just started this thread to let off steam.
I filed a complaint against a therapist.
I was invited to a hearing, since the therapist was licensed halfway across the country, I didn’t attended and tried to do it all in writing. They scheduled a hearing with her anyway, but By the time the hearing was scheduled, she had decided to leave the profession.
But there will be a regulatory board (or I’d imagine there will be in the UK.) I wouldn’t expect revocation on one complaint unless it was a huge breach of competency or ethics with proof that it wasn’t an honest error, but I’d also expect that if your complaint is part of a pattern it will add to the weight of evidence.
There is overall a shortage of doctors in the country and even in regions where there’s no shortage there aren’t nearly do many to constitute “competition” in that sense. It’s already so expensive and difficult ti become a doctor in the first place that significant competition is weeded out from the start. Thee are no doctors starving for lack of patients.
Is this doctor incompetent or did you just have an unfortunate outcome? Did the doctor really act unethically or are you just dissatisfied with the results? Did the doctor willfully act in a bad faith manner that harmed you? These are the kinds of questions that will come up.
Yeah, any terms like these are understood. The Virginia Department of Health Professions apparently calls it “revocation” of a license to practice medicine. Each state has its own governing body.
“Struck off” sounds very mediaeval. “Struck off the rolls” by a scribe holding a quill and a scroll.
Parchment and scalpel.
Just to provide a number for the OP, in 2003, 5 doctors were struck off in the UK
Well don’t expect to get someone fired or suspended or even to get a sympathetic ear from another doctor about it!
But you can probably file a complaint against that person. In the US many states have online forms for reporting abuse at nursing homes and with healthcare professionals. The complaint then would be reviewed by a regulatory and licensing authority at a bureau of health professions. You may also be able to check on the license of a health care professional online and see if they remain in “good standing”…
Write it down, remain objective, stick to the facts, and good luck!
Do you have hard, verifiable proof of this behavior? If not, I would think your chances are pretty slim in succeeding in any action, especially given the context of being a psychiatric patient.
What exactly did they do? Was it an action with a paper trail like giving you improper drug, or was it telling you to do something or giving you advice you thought was unprofessional?
Specifically yes, but there was more license enforcement than that across the board. From your document.