Holy crap thank you for this info, he was currently one of my choices, but now that i've seen this, absolutely not.

But now i question who else i should go with. The best answer would be just got to Thailand, but haven't got that kinda spare money

Thank you for taking the time to contact the General Medical Council with your concerns.

I know it may be difficult to tell us about your experience. An Assistant Registrar, a senior decision maker at the GMC, has reviewed your complaint and received advice from a medically qualified colleague, and has decided that the concerns you have raised would not require us to restrict or remove the doctor’s registration at this time. However, we will be sharing your concerns directly with the doctor’s Responsible Officer so that they can consider the matter at a local level.

The role of the Responsible Officer

The Responsible Officer is a senior doctor who is responsible for monitoring the performance of doctors locally, and making sure doctors keep their skills and knowledge up to date. They are involved in the doctor’s revalidation and annual appraisal, which is the process all licensed doctors are required to take part in to demonstrate their ongoing fitness to practise medicine. They make recommendations to the GMC about whether doctors should be revalidated, and they are duty bound to disclose any serious concerns about a doctor’s practise.

Reasons for our decision

The Assistant Registrar (AR) has carefully considered all the information you provided in addition to other relevant information held by the GMC.

The AR obtained advice from a medically trained colleague about the complaint. The adviser commented on the concerns regarding the two incidents where Mr Bellringer examined or tried to examine you. The adviser said they did not have serious concerns about Mr Bellringer’s fitness to practice in this respect and felt that the issues represented concerns regarding communication and bedside manner.

The adviser did not feel that from the information regarding your concerns there was evidence of abuse. The adviser notes the hospital complaint response indicates that Mr Bellringer was not aware before the second incident that you did not wish to see him again, and that this was due to communication issues on the ward, which the hospital detailed in their response.

Their lack of communication caused me to have a meltdown after my revision by Rashid. I told them on multiple occasions that he was not allowed anywhere near me only for him to enter my room just after a nurse had removed the PCA and checked my catheter and leg bag was empty for the trip home. My partner witnessed his actions and was just as frozen in fear as i was.

The adviser did not have any concerns regarding Mr Bellringer in relation to the pain relief you received after the surgery. The adviser noted that you had a morphine patient-controlled analgesia system and other pain relief available. The adviser said that if the patient had found this was insufficient then there would be an expectation that a ward doctor or nurse would assess if further medication was required and seek further advice if required. The adviser did not feel that it was an issue that primarily relates to Mr Bellringer.

The PCA lasted less than 24 hours and had run out before he ripped my dressing off while i was in serious pain. I had no effective pain relief at that point. I ended up screaming at a nurse at 3am because they kepy writing on my records that my pain level was 0. The on call doctor came to see me half hour later, looked at my medications chart and said "i cant givve you anything for the pain" at which point he prescribed me Zopiclone to sedate me and make me somebody else's problem in the morning.

The adviser said that your dissatisfaction with the surgical outcome of Mr Bellringer’s surgery does not necessarily indicate that the surgery was deficient. The adviser said he could not identify objective evidence suggesting that there are serious concerns about the standard of the operation.

Dissatisfacton is a bit of an understatement and they still had concerns, just not serious ones.

The AR has carefully considered the advice and accepted it.

The AR commented that in relation to the two incidents which were the basis of the original complaint, it is their view that these are concerns relating to communication, bedside manner and having respect for the patient. The AR appreciates that you have concerns that Mr Bellringer’s action represent something much more serious and that it had a significant impact on you. The AR does not feel that from the information within the complaint there is anything that would give rise to serious concerns relating to Mr Bellringer’s conduct during the examination but there are concerns which should be shared with Mr Bellringer and his Responsible Officer (RO).

He had no right to touch me. The fact that he just gets away with sexually assaultng me is infuriating and the main reason for my mental health issues including diagnosed PTSD, clinical depression and anxiety. He caused it and just gets away with it because he is a surgeon.

The AR considers that these concerns relate to his communication (or lack thereof) and his manner in relation to you. The RO should discuss with Mr Bellinger the importance of ensuring that patients have been told, and understand, what the doctor is going to do (e.g. Removing coverings / dressings)

Hopefully nodody else has to be alone in a room with him again.

The AR appreciates that you have concerns regarding the standard of the surgery and the complications you suffered. They commented that all surgery has risks and outcomes are not guaranteed, including the aesthetic outcome. From the information provided and after considering the advice, the AR is of the view that there is no evidence that suggests the standard of care was so poor that it might raise serious concerns about Mr Bellringer’s fitness to practice.

Again, it was poor but not poor enough to be punishable.

You raised a concern with the GMC in the response to our request for further information. The AR commented that it does not appear to have been raised locally. You complained that Mr Bellringer had made the following comment “what do you want to do, fuck a horse.” This would appear to be a very offensive comment to make to any patient but, even more so to a patient who had undergone genital surgery and would be very vulnerable. The AR considers that this would be categorised as extreme rudeness rather than something more serious like discrimination.

I had asked about difficulty using the purple dilator after starting on the small orange pre-dilator. His reply was exactly as detailed above.

It is the AR’s decision that the concerns you have raised are not so serious to require investigation into Mr Bellringer’s fitness to practice but they should be shared with Mr Bellringer and his Responsible Officer so that he can reflect on them and consider how he approached interactions with patients in future.

I'm sure he will reflect for all of 3 seconds before just carrying on as before.

What happens next?

We will write to the doctor to share your complaint. The doctor will be aware who has made the complaint, but we will not disclose your contact details to them. We will also send your concerns to the doctor’s Responsible Officer and ask them to address your complaint directly with the doctor as part of their appraisal. We may take further action if they tell us about any serious concerns, either in relation to your complaint or more enerally.

If anyone else has concerns please for the good of anyone else he ever operates on complain to the hospital at a minumum. If enough complaints happen about his behaviour then something will have to be done so that he improves or is monitored more closely.

I will upload my full complaint to Parkside but it includes multuple images of other patients genitals when compared to mine that i do not have permission to share. I respect their privacy and it will take me time to edit but i can only do so when i feel up to looking at it again.

The complaints sent to the GMC and PHSO were web based so i do not have a complete accurate record. Multiple web forms and emails are hard to condense down to a readable reddit post unfortunately.

The PHSO complaint is still ongoing but i will of course post their reply on here and a link to the decision if it doesnt contain any PII. Looking at other complaints to them they all include PII even if the decision is to take no action, so im guessing they will out me sooner or later against my wishes.

I've heard so very little good about Bellringer, it's scary to think I was going to go with him.

I'm so thankful that people like yourself post to Reddit about your experiences. I had a consultation with him and he came across as incredibly dismissive of poor results others have shown here which really put me off him.

Jfc.. I'm so sorry. What an absolute fucking ghoul.

Thank you

Do you know what this means in practice?