Unrepentant anti-vax GP says she is 'delighted' to be struck off

Unrepentant anti-vax GP says she is ‘delighted’ to be struck off for telling parents to let their children get measles and for sharing ‘one-sided’ views about vaccines

•  The medic accusing her tribunal hearing of being a ‘political show trial’

A GP who showed no regret over telling parents to let their children get measles has said she is ‘delighted’ after being struck off.

NHS GP Dr Jayne Donegan, who also worked as a homeopath, told an undercover reporter for The Telegraph that she would ‘definitely want’ children to get mumps and for girls to contract rubella ‘in an ideal world’.

She also admitted to feeling guilty about having her own children inoculated during a homeopathy appointment.

Dr Donegan didn’t tell the reporter to avoid vaccinating her toddler during the appointment, however she did insist that she didn’t tell her friends if she chose to go for a ‘non-standard’ method regarding a vaccination. 

‘They’ll start thinking that your child is going to infect all of their children,’ she warned.

Dr Jayne Donegan (pictured) said she is ‘delighted’ after being struck off

The GP was one of a few homeopaths which was exposed by the newspaper for voicing problematic views surrounding vaccination. 

A transcript of the meeting, which took place in 2019, was used in a hearing before the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service, which drew the conclusion that the doctor’s ‘fitness to practice is impaired’.

Dr Donegan was banned from practising medicine for a minimum of five years by the tribunal and removed from the General Medical Council’s (GMC) register.

She can continue to work as a homeopath in the meantime and has 28 days to appeal the decision.

The doctor ‘deliberately’ misinformed healthcare professionals about their children’s ‘vaccination status and/or diet’, according to the tribunal.

It also criticised her ‘persistent lack of insight into the seriouness’ of her actions.

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Parents were told by Dr Donegan to forge their children’s medical records in order to trick schools into thinking their child had been vaccinated. 

One exposé, in November 2019, led to calls from former Health Secretary Matt Hancock for her to be investigated after he declared: ‘Vaccines save lives – the science is beyond doubt. Anyone who claims otherwise is wilfully risking lives.’

The General Medical Council (GMC) alleged she failed to give balanced views on the risks and benefits of immunisation, and did not comply with clinical knowledge summaries as outlined by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.

During an MMR vaccine event, in June 2019, she told the audience how to falsify a child’s health record – or red book – detailing their vaccine history.

Dr Donegan even went as far as saying she would ‘get struck off’ for recommending such advice, as she described how parents could avoid questions in A&E about the child’s medical status by acting stupid.

While she was criticised for her comments and views, she was cleared of putting ‘newborn infants at risk of significant harm’ with her immunisation advice.

The medic refused to attend the hearing, accusing it of being a ‘political show trial’.

Yesterday, she hit out at the claims and said that ‘being struck off is a small price to pay for taking a lawful ethical stand for the safety of British children’.

‘I’m delighted… that after years of trying to get off the GMC register, I have finally achieved this. The worst possible outcome would be 10 more years of compulsory registration.’

In written submissions, Dr Donegan claimed she had sought to provide balanced views by highlighting the risks of immunisation and vaccine efficacy because positive information was already available.

‘Vaccines are not safe,’ she insisted. ‘They cause adverse reactions some of which are serious, including death. But the general public do not know that – they think they can trust their doctors.’

Dr Donegan also stated: ‘If parents mislead healthcare professionals, the responsibility for that lies with healthcare professionals.

‘Every doctor has a duty to ensure a child can get proper medical care as and when it is needed without parents being bullied by doctors about a child’s vaccination status and frightened away and put off seeking attention for their child.’

The tribunal said: ‘She stated that vaccines are not needed, that they have adverse effects, are not effective, have side effects that are not monitored and stated that the government supports vaccination because it makes money from it.’

An investigation was launched into the medic’s conduct in January 2020, however her hearing only took place last month after being pushed back by the pandemic. 

It comes off the back of a quick rise in the cases of measles in the UK, with 49 cases being detected in the first four months of the year, compared with 54 in the whole of 2022.

It comes off the back of a quick rise in the cases of measles in the UK, with 49 cases being detected in the first four months of the year, compared with 54 in the whole of 2022

Experts believe a decline in vaccine uptake around the world is partly responsible for numbers climbing.

Before the pandemic, the percentage of children getting jabbed against measles, mumps and rubella was already declining, however it tumbled to a decade low last year.

According to data from the UK Health Security Agency, only 85 per cent of five-year-olds in the country have been fully innoculated against the diseases.

Tthe World Health Organisation sets a target of 95 per cent in order to halt the contractions of the illnesses.

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