Libel lawyers have written to the creator of a new website that reviews GPs, warning of impending legal action.

Bring it on.......lets have a site for Practice Nurses!

Shipman did not have complaints

antibiotics, herceptin, 20 minute consultations and sunday midnight consultations for everybody... better to have smiley doctors than those who know what they are doing

The website is a blunt and misleading tool and claims to allow you to "Choose the very best care for you and your family"... any clinician can see that to claim that only the opinion of a small number of computer owning patients makes the very best Clinician is ignorant to say the least... I do hope it is a limited company or this specialist has a lucrative private practice as the financial liability and legal cost would be scary.

It is suprising that this specialist Dr does not realise that he is not only being used as a political tool but that he is so open to libel charges that I almost hope that I am the first doctor to get a poor review

I am all for protecting the patient and getting the best for the patient within the limited resources lets also protect the doctors and name the patients who hop from one practice to another, those who are high demand, aggressive tendencies, frequent attenders, don't keep appointments the open approach has to be two way

I fail to understand the logic of posting comments about your GP on this site. A select few who are deliriously happy or seething in anger after seeing their doctor will care to write if they are IT savvy. That leaves the 90% real patients who are happy or not so happy for various reasons out of the picture. All comments are one sided stories. How can you protect yourself against libel when the stuff written about other people may be entirely indefensible. In real life, if you called someone a foul name and he had a witness, he can sue you. Here people are offering evidence. Its like saying- HIT ME ! Dr. Neil Bacon is a brave man.

I am not a Dr but see this as yet another means for the disgruntled few to go doctor bashing - this is a legal minefield and I wish Dr Bacon luck. I do hope the practice nurse asking for a similar site is aware of what she is asking for and has both a good lawyer and good insurance