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Official transcripts from Dr Skinner's GMC FTP hearing
The official day-by-day transcripts from Dr Gordon Skinner's General Medical Council Fitness to Practice hearing. Special thanks to Julie Cameron for obtaining these transcripts.

Notes on Skinner GMC panel FTP decision
Sunday, 11 November 2007, was the day the General Medical Council panel decided that Dr Skinner's fitness to practice had been 'impaired'. We have been extremely concerned for the past two and a half years that the GMC might remove his registration, but were amazed, during the summing up by the Chairperson, to hear her tell Dr Skinner before she continued to give the final determination.

Dr Skinner condemns the GMC: Document Overview
Dr Skinner hits back at the GMC and its insistence on using flawed principles and misinformation against his practice of medicine. In this series of articles, Dr Skinner once again corrects the Body's misconceptions and ideas for fear that the GMC's continued incorrect beliefs and unproven precepts will become policy and seriously affect practicing endocrinologists and general practitioners.

Considerations on Fitness to Practise Panel Determination 7th September 2007
Professional integrity is absent. The Panel have been asked to adjudge on allegations made on three occasions by practitioners who have never seen the patients nor had the courtesy to address any concerns with my good self and yet these types of allegations - which are clearly unfounded - were entertained in full by the GMC; Dr SKinner asks that consideration be given to this unprofessional approach to peer review of medical practice.

GMC versus Dr Gordon Skinner: Pantomime for everyone but the patient
A Fitness to Practise Panel comprising an ophthalmologist and three lay members have deemed that Dr Gordon R B Skinner has impaired fitness to practise medicine. Their determination mainly focused on a patient who had travelled some distance to the hearing but the GMC would not then receive her evidence.

GMC versus Dr Gordon Skinner: A sliver of hope in a sea of despair
The Panel of the GMC at Dr Skinner's Fitness to Practise hearing have at last acknowledged contrary to the view of their own two expert witnesses that diagnosis of hypothyroidism notwithstanding thyroid chemistry within 95% reference intervals does not constitute impaired Fitness to Practise.

Document of Record concerning UK Guidelines for thyroid function test
Skinner states his non-acceptance of the precepts contained in the 2005 diagnosis and treatment guidelines set forth by the Association for Clinical Biochemistry, British Thyroid Association, and British Thyroid Foundation Working Group.

Critique of proposed ‘UK Guidelines for the use of thyroid function tests’
In October 2005, the Association of Clinical Biochemistry, the British Thyroid Association and British Thyroid Foundation kindly prepared a document entitled “UK Guidelines for the Use of Thyroid Function Tests”, followed by a revision in July 2006 with proposition of a further review after one year of practice. Dr Skinner critiques these guidelines.

Thyroid Replacement in Clinically Hypothyroid Patients who have Free Thyroxine or Thyroid Stimulating Hormone within 95% Reference Intervals
There is controversy in the medical profession on the advisability of thyroid replacement in patients whose thyroid chemistry in particular the free thyroxine (FT4) and or thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) lie inside the laboratory 95% reference intervals. This is a central issue in an ongoing GMC v Skinner Fitness to Practice Hearing, and one in which Dr Skinner discusses at length.

Dr Skinner, TPA-UK in Daily Mail article
In the article entitled "The wake-you-up pill . . . how a controversial thyroid supplement could help tiredness", Science and Medical writer Jerome Burne presents several patient cases of extreme exhaustion and other symptoms that pointed to hypothyroidism. These patients subsequently sought help from Dr Gordon Skinner whose treatment inveritably changed their lives for the better.

Patient letter from Dr Skinner
"Since I last wrote to you there has been a significant develop-ment in that the Fitness to Practise hearing was finalised on 11.11.2007. I am pleased to report that the Fitness to Practise Panel considered that I could continue to practice under essen-tially a continuance of the Interim Order conditions, which have been operating since the first Interim Order hearing in 2005. . ."