Got another  letter from Peter Dixon, apparently I am infringing copyright laws using pictures of him from the GCC Newsletter and must stop. In addition I have been printing malicious gossip about Margaret Coats a  “valued employee” who he has “absolute confidence” in.

Dixon States my report that Margaret Coats position is under threat, and the GCC is having an Extraordinary General Metting on the 17th of December to discuss her future as Chief executive of the GCC is completely untrue and defamatory. I heard this from someone who is very close to one of the people who was at the meeting with the GCC in November so it seems  someone has their wires crossed, or Dixon and the GCC have been buying time getting everyone signed up for another year, knowing VAT will rise to 20% in January and making  it less likely thatchiropractors would resign from the register in 2011 .

I am told Dixon has recently changed his position and told the associations that its business as usual at the GCC and Maragret Coats is staying and its not for the associations to tell the GCC who they should or should not employ and if the associations want to communicate with the GCC they will have to do it through Coats.

I guess with Dixon being seriously short of allies he cannot be choosey and Coats is all he has left. He may have scarped in in last place in the 2007 GCC elections, however I can confidently predict that was the last time Dixon was elected to any kind of position in the chiropractic profession.

I keep promising to do a posting about his investigation into Coats use of private investigators to spy on people and their refusal to comply with the Data protection act and will get around to it before the new year, for now I will make do with pilling a bit more shit on the ass in the hole.  Take a look at the most recent cases dismissed by the Professional Conduct Committee.

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Some of the “accused”chiropractors  have  made a submission of an “abuse of process” against the GCC chief executive Margaret Coats. This was one of the reasons I was against these closed hearing because the chiropractors wont get the opportunity to cross examine Coats as they would at an open hearing.

As the case is now dismissed, there is no need for the GCC to investigate any “alleged” abuse of process and bad governance at the GCC, so all this shit with the rest, can all be brushed  under Coats carpet. Abuse of process affects all registrants which was the point  I was making in my removal statement in 2008. None of those allegations were investigated by the GCC and I was not sued for defaming anybody in the statement because every word of it is true and they would not want to draw attention to any of it.

The case against Sarah Bartholomew was dismissed for what the PCC describes as “an unfortunate misunderstanding” It seems Margaret Coats saw a copy of the PCCs determination before it had been published and did as she seems to have done many times before, ( the worse being the Jeb McEvenie case in 2007 when she actually barged in to the PCC deliberations with her opinions which was a gross abuse of the process and that hearing had to be adjourned) she said something trying to influence the GCC decision making process. We know about the McEvenie case and this case because there were people on that panel who objected to her interference, by enlarge Council members dont want the hassle and do what Coats tells them.

Margaret Coats told the council in 2008 “that their was “no evidence” that her deputy Greg Price had posted anti chiropractic messages on  anti chiropractic websites.  Peter Dixon and the GCC lawyers told me it was defamatory for me to call her a liar for doing this and I was removed from council.  Apparently I had “misheard” what Coats had said, according to Christiana Cunliffe and the other GCC lackeys. They “clearly” remembered (I was the only one writing down what she said) Coats saying that there was no evidence “that her deputy Greg Price had posted anti chiropractic messages on “US” websites from the GCC server . You see Dixon and Coats were the  ones who had the evidence (that Price was working when the postings Dana Greene reportet to Coats were made).   Just another GCC “misunderstanding”.

The question now is, for how much longer is the chiropractic profession going to accept this type of behaviour from the GCCs Nora Batty.

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Richard Lanigan
Richard Lanigan

Richard Lanigan DC.BSc (Chiro) MSc( Health Promotion) was born in North London 1957 of Irish Parents and was educated in Ireland. Originally trained as a PE teacher, he moved to Denmark 1979, where a serious knee injury got him interested in rehabilitation and training methods. Richard founded Denmarks premier fitness centre "Sweat Shop" in 1982 and travelled all over the world to find how best to prepare athletes for competition. In 1984 he became fitness and rehab consultant to the Danish national badminton teams, handball teams and many football club sides. This approach to optimal performance is normal in 2010, however back in the early 80s it was very revolutionary, when stretching was limited to putting on your socks and knee injuries were immobilised for months in plaster.
Richard developed rehabilitation and fitness programmes for many of Denmark’s top athletes including Kirsten Larsten and Ib Frederickson, all England singles badminton champions in late 80s. "Team Denmark" hired him and his facilities to help prepare many of Denmarks athletes for the LA and Seoul Olympics. In 1990 he worked with Anya Anderson, Olympic gold medallist and voted worlds best female handball player at the Atlanta Olympics.
Richard advised Copenhagen’s main teaching (Rigs) Hospital on starting their rehab facility in 1984. In the same year he started working with Denmarks leading chiropractor; Ole Wessung DC, who demonstrated the effectiveness of Chiropractic in improving athletic performance, so impressed was Richard that in 1990 he moved back to England to study chiropractic at Anglo European College of Chiropractic and was student president for two years between 1993-1995.

Richard was awarded a fellowship by the College of Chiropractors in 2008, however in January 2009 Richard chose to stop using the title chiropractor in the UK because the British regulatory body for chiropractic (The GCC) had not maintained international standards of chiropractic education in the UK and including prescribing medicines in the chiropractic scope of practice, a fig leaf for incompetent UK chiropractors to hide behind. Richard has another clinic in Dublin and is a member of the Chiropractic Association of Ireland and the European Chiropractic Union.
Richard has four children Eloise aged 3, Molly and Isabelle aged five and the eldest Frederik aged twenty one is pursuing a career as a professional tennis player and has represented Norway in the Davis Cup in 2006 & 2007. None of Richards children have ever taken any medicine, www.vaccination.co.uk they eat healthy food, take lots of exercise and have their spines checked every month, www.familychiropractic.co.uk
Richard has had much experience working in the Cuban health service where Doctors are keen to incorporate drug free interventions (acupuncture and chiropractic) and prevention in their health care programmes www.henryreevebrigade.org

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