Another photo of Greg Brady after his NHS operations last month, attempting to repair some of the horrific damage caused by laser eye surgery at Accuvision's London clinic
For argument's sake, if we were to accept Greg's allegation that Dr Prashant Jindal was NOT his operating surgeon, then why would Jindal want to claim responsibility for this tragedy?
Page 51, para 8, from the AccuVision consent form, signed by Greg Brady on 28 December 2016:
And to be entirely clear, no matter that Greg signed this consent form, it is not legal, because only a GMC registered doctor is licensed - and insured - to perform surgery of any kind on a patient.
And I understand that a surgeon who claims to have fully consented a patient with Accuvision's terms is therefore in violation of the GMC Good medical practice guidance.
From the GMC website:
www.gmc-uk.org/…/a-gu…/unregistered-medical-practice
The GMC and other regulatory bodies have been provided with Greg's consent form, which leaves Dr Prashant Jindal between a rock and a hard place: he's damned if he did operate on Greg, and damned if he didn’t!
And the GMC's inevitable forthcoming investigation could lead to Dr Jindal being ‘erased' from the medical register - that’s a real GMC term btw, not a quote from Black Mirror!
According to the reluctantly disclosed info I squeezed out of long term Accuvision optoms earlier this year (Joan Griffin via phone and Vikash Patel online), Drs Prashant Jindal and Panagiotis Takis Kalognomas are the only two GMC registered ophthalmologists currently operating out of Accuvision's three clinics, located in Birmingham, Leeds, and London.
NB: The Bristol clinic listed on their website is for consults only.
Further research discovered that Prashant Jindal has worked alongside Accuvision businessman owner Daryus Panthakey since 2007, and is not on the GMC Specialist Register, while Panagiotis Takis Kalognomas, who is on the Specialist Register, also works at the Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth in London.
After requesting to meet with his operating surgeon in October 2017, told that Dr Jindal was unavailable, Greg and his partner Catherine instead met with optometrist Johann Panthakey (son of Daryus), and ophthalmologist Dr Kalognomas, who didn’t contradict non medically qualified businessman Daryus Panthakey when he incorrectly described himself as a ‘
clinician’!
And for all their faults, you won’t find Optimax and Optical Express bosses Russell Ambrose and David Moulsdale hanging around their clinics in operating scrubs, as AccuVision boss Daryus Panthakey has done for nearly two decades!
I mentioned in a previous post that Dr Dan Reinstein also worked alongside Daryus Panthakey (when he first landed on our shores from the US, before adopting his Professor title), as did Dr Simon Levy, who left for reasons he really should have told the GMC - not too late Simon!
And then there’s Dr Brett Halliday, no longer operating as I understand, with a highly lucrative income as a medicolegal expert, currently paid by Optical Express to write reports for their legal defence against claims from damaged patients.
Dr Halliday also worked closely with Daryus Panthakey in previous years, and I met both men on separate occasions in 2013, in regard to another Accuvision damaged patient who claims that Brett Halliday did not operate on him, even though his name is noted on the medical records.
Notice a pattern emerging here...
I did of course record these meetings, and copies will be provided to the GMC et al.
There're a number of doctors, and others in the industry, who can provide valuable info and evidence that will help any investigation, and over the years I've offered many of them the chance to speak to the GMC - and police, but they don't want to stick their heads above the parapet.
Either way, they’ll all be named and shamed eventually...
Meanwhile, if you’re reckless enough to be seriously considering surgery at Accuvision, notice that there are no photos of any surgeons or staff on their website, so I strongly advise that you ask the surgeon - who you must meet before the operation day - to allow you to video him (or her) stating their name and GMC reference number, with a guarantee that s/he’ll be the only one performing your ops.
If they refuse, then get the hell outta there!