LIB DEM URGES SWIFT PUBLICATION OF REPORT ON LOCAL DOCTOR

29.4.03

Lib Dem Social Services Spokesperson Cllr Ron Aitken, has written to the head of the local strategic health authority to urge the immediate publication of the finding of the inquiry into the conviction of Dr Timothy Healy, convicted on indecency charges last September.

Mr Aitken said it is now seven moths since Dr Healy's conviction and removal from the list of General Practitioners. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison, reduced on appeal to eight. Ron Aitken says the speedy publication of the health authority's inquiry is of concern to Haringey residents.

Although Dr Healy was a Barnet GP, his home, at which he treated patients, was in Haringey, and he had also worked at the Whittington Hospital which treats many Haringey patients.

Ron Aitken comments:

"I am extremely concerned to see the prompt publication of this report and all its findings. Seven months have passed and it is essential that any victims in Haringey can be given support and advice about what would certainly have been a devastating experience for others in Barnet.

"Delays are not acceptable, and I have asked Marcia Saunders, Chair of the North Central London Health authority, to publish the report. All the agencies involved, as well as the victims whose lives have been affected, need the greatest possible confidence that such a tragedy never happens again."

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