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Cork GP escapes erasure from Register

A GP from Cork found guilty of professional misconduct has escaped erasure from the medical register.

The Medical Council’s Fitness to Practise (FTP) Committee yesterday (November 11) found Polish-born Dr Iwona Kulczyk-Repec guilty of professional misconduct on seven counts. She had faced 15 allegations of prescribing large doses of opiate-based drugs to patients without a medical need.

Dr Kulczyk-Repec had accepted she should not have given out prescribed tranquillisers to some 86 patients, but that she had only done so because some patients who had drug addiction problems had threatened her, including in one instance when a patient threatened to burn down her surgery.

After a four-day FTP inquiry held on two separate occasions over two months, the FTP Committee found that Dr Kulczyk-Repec’s behaviour had amounted to professional misconduct on seven of the 15 allegations, with a further seven counts of poor professional performance. A final allegation was struck out during the hearing.

The Committee ruled that while the nature of the allegations were very serious, the GP’s actions were not morally wrong, and there had been no evidence of further over-prescription of medications.

Dr Kulczyk-Repec has been allowed to continue her practice, but with a number of conditions. These include the nomination of a medical professional, approved by the Medical Council, to supervise her work for a minimum of two years, effective immediately.

Posted in Regulation on 12 November 2009
Tags: Fitness to Practice, GPs, Medical Council