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NEW RULES FOR DISGRACED DOCTORS:.||=================================================================================||||a)C4N: EVE EDWARDS||LIB (C11029901/ITN)||ENGLAND: London: Downing Street:||EXT||SLOW MOTION MS Alan Milburn MP (Health Secretary) along to no.10 PAN ||||GRAPHIC Government Consultation Document||||LIB (TX 31.1.00/ITN)|Manchester: ||SLOW MOTION MS Dr Harold Shipman (convicted of murdering patients) led along to prison van in handcuffs||LIB (C17109801/ITN)|London: General Medical Council:||EXT||GVs General Medical Council headquarters building (3 shots)||TX 18.3.2000/C4N||b)C4N: KRISHNAN GURU-MURTHY - Christine Tomkins||ITN|ENGLAND: London: GIR:||INT||Dr Christine Tomkins (Medical Defence Union) interviewed SOT|- Important to realise that each case has to be considered on its merit - in some cases the problem could be addressed by re-training ||- Bond of trust between doctor and patient is paramount and it is vitally important that no doctor who is under standard should be allowed to practice but the point is that a doctor may make a mistake he may address that mistake and he may then be fit to practice ||- Important not to look at a single horrific and wholly unrepresentative case when considering what the general rules should be which regulate the industry |||TX 18.3.2000/C4N||c)C5F: U'LAY Operation in progress/Shipman along|NOT SOURCED|????||INT||SEQ: Operation in progress||(seq = 8 secs)||||ENGLAND: Manchester: ||EXT||LS Dr Harold Shipman (convicted of murdering patients) led along to prison van in handcuffs|||TX 18.3.2000/C5F