Dr Mark Dudley, Head of Medical Services London

Dr Dudley has recently been promoted to Head of Medical Services in the London office. I happened to speak to a doctor who told me they had seen a clutch of letters written by Dr Dudley in which he told a doctor they were not eligible for help when they obviously were. I was surpised, looked in their Memorandum of the Articles of Association and saw that the letters were at variance with what the Articles said. I asked the doctor what had happened. He told me that this other doctor, who was well known, had been defamed on the internet and elsewhere constantly by a couple of MPS members who were husband and wife. Even though this doctor was a retired member they ought to have been eligible for representation and had naively relied on Dr Dudley to tell them their full entitlement but it turned out that he had neglected to do so and was now trying to deny any wrong doing. To make matters worse when a Leading Counsel told Dr Dudley that this doctor had been defamed by their member and said "He's obviously got an agenda" Dr Dudley shut him up immediately and refused to allow any proper discussion of it. The Leading Counsel had not been properly instructed by the solicitors to take into account all of the issues and also instructed the leading counsel wrongly over the doctor's entitlement. I asked if this had been a mistake but then I saw other papers in which it showed that there were forces at work in the MPS showing that the defamer was not working alone and his consultant from his house officer days was now an advisor in the MPS, but the MPS had played this close to their chest and were giving nothing away. I asked the doctor what had then happened and he told me that the retired member had written to Dr Dudley about the deception. There was little doubt that Priya Singh would have known about the deception and if she didn't originally she must do now as Dr Dudley still said she was responsible for him. I asked the doctor if anything had been done by the MPS Council and its chairman, Nick Davis, to put matters right. He said he didn't think there had but then it may yet not have reached the ears of the council. I asked the doctor what this other doctor really thought and he said that there has been a deception and an attempted cover up by Dr Dudley for the MPS. The Emigrant asks doctors to reflect carefully about this organisation and recommends that doctors move to the MDDUS.