I’m not going to risk making any predictions for 2024, but I am prepared to say with absolute certainty that there will be high profile events happening this year, that I believe - regardless of their radio silence to date, will be too hot for the press to ignore (including the General Medical Council’s application to exclude me from Dr Prashant Jindal’s FtP hearing).
Hopefully press coverage will in turn force the government to explain why they are ignoring the refractive surgery scandal, that is not only ruining people’s lives, but costing the country untold millions in NHS aftercare and unemployment benefits.
And as I wrote in 2023, to all damaged patients, their families and friends, and those who support us in various ways (especially John McDonnell MP), I wish you a Happy New Year and the best 2024 possible!
And to everyone else, I wish you what you deserve 👀
Excerpts from previous NYD posts…
1 January 2020: 'I am confident that 2020 will ultimately be OUR year… with two good reasons for my prediction tucked in my pocket until I am able to publish - one hopefully by the end of February or March...'
1 January 2021:
‘Unfortunately last year didn’t quite go the way I'd expected - in more ways than one, but there is good news on the horizon…’
1 January 2022:
‘If interested in reading more about the above, scroll back to read the earlier NYD posts in full - and consider 2022 the new 2020, at least so far as this industry is concerned!’
1 January 2023:
‘Things yet again not going quite the way in 2022 as so many of us expected, not least due to the extraordinary outcome of Dr #PrashantJindal’s FtP hearing, when the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service panel members incredibly recused themselves, absurdly blaming me for their unprecedented decision, astonishingly supported by #notfitforpurpose General Medical Council (GMC)’s legal team (FtP hearing relisted in September with new panel), story to be continued soon!’