Counselling and Depression as remedies to FTP

From another case recently posted up on the HPC web, of a paramedic :

"you were referred to an independent counsellor by the Occupational Health Department. You told the Panel that the period of counselling has had a significant effect on your health, that your depression is well controlled and your relationship with your wife is now stable."

Well, three things stand out. First, in what way is it useful for the HPC to post this information up on the public domain? It smacks of 1984.

Second, the counselling is presented as a remedy prescribed by Occupational Health which rather begins to beg the question about another profession that might be regulated by the HPC.
Later in the announcement we find a letter from the GP validating the fact that the counselling has contained the depression. This effectively turns it into a medical condition under control, ultimately, of the GP. This is the third point, and is contentious, to say the least. The HPC and its staff operate within an unenlightened medical paradigm which brings 'counselling' into the frame as a solution, like a drug, to inefficient or ineffective workforce issues.

It is the legal frame, the centralised operation of the HPC, and the close proximity of a government agenda, that distorts the general human condition into a specific public spectacle. Even if this is an unintended consequence, it appears highly normal to those within the frame.

I think it is something that many people will be amazed to see blossoming in the UK today.