Below, taken from today's HPC website, is someone who is described as experienced, yet is suspended for not filling in her notes. From the report here, it seems that there was a bit of a fight between colleagues at work. Everything is ok with the patients, no problems emerge from there, but when this woman goes on holiday, her colleagues appear to snitch on her! What is going on here? I wonder whether a new compturised system is getting in the way - something that assumes work should be done differently from the way it has been done throughout this woman's experience.
And as for the phrase 'I probably made it up' - what on earth is that supposed to refer to? the HPC are notorious for thinking that their registrants might fib (ref their advertising campaign which portrayed professionals as liars), and this quote is so out of context that it is meaningless.
quoted from HPC web:
Physiotherapist, Ms X, has been suspended from the HPC Register for failing to keep accurate patient records whilst employed by Y District Primary Care Trust.
A panel of the HPC Conduct and Competence Committee heard that whilst Ms X was on leave her colleagues were alerted to cases where she had failed to keep accurate records and failed to create action plans for appropriate treatment of patients.
Ms X was an experienced physiotherapist and had been counselled previously in relation to her inadequate record keeping. The Panel heard that when Ms X was confronted about the incidents she admitted ‘she had probably made it up.’
Panel Chair, Mr Gordon Sutehall, commented:
“We are satisfied that there were deficiencies in the registrant’s practice to record keeping and despite supervision and training the registrant did not consistently meet the required standard of record keeping”
“The allegation involves an element of dishonesty and is therefore a serious one.”
The panel decided the most appropriate action was to suspend Ms X from the Register for a period of six months with immediate effect.
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