In my story, a doctor who's never been in trouble with the law before gets arrested and ends up being given a three year prison sentence. He meets the criteria to be in a category D (low security) prison, according to the gov dot UK website. However, I was unable to find anything on the website that clarified whether someone who's eligible to be in a cat D prison would start off in a cat D prison and do their whole sentence there, or if they would be initially sent to a higher security prison and then moved to a cat D prison later? Or does the case of getting moved to a cat D prison later on just apply to higher risk prisoners who get moved there for good behaviour?
Also, this doctor owns and runs his own private clinic and does not work for the NHS (though will occasionally see former NHS patients in his private clinic for free, at his expense, but does not work for the NHS). He's a director/shareholder of the business and also the main doctor at the clinic. Would going to jail for a crime that's related to medical ethics mean that he would automatically get struck off? He cloned my main character, who's a Neandertal, and who's now 15 so the actual cloning took place 16 years ago and he's not done anything illegal before or since. In the story (set in 2055) unauthorised cloning of humans is illegal, plus he is also charged with fraudulently obtaining Neandertal DNA for the purposes of human cloning. I would guess that this would get him struck off? I did look up the rules on the GMC website but obviously it doesn't cover illegal cloning of Neandertals and while I found out a lot about what ethical rules doctors have to stick to, it didn't have much info about what can or can't get them struck off.
If he did get struck off, can he still continue to run his clinic as a director/shareholder, only running the business/financial side of it, while employing other doctors to do the medical work? Or would he have to sell the clinic (as in the whole business) to someone else? He has not committed any kind of medical malpractice and his patients consistently receive a high level of care.
Also, this doctor owns and runs his own private clinic and does not work for the NHS (though will occasionally see former NHS patients in his private clinic for free, at his expense, but does not work for the NHS). He's a director/shareholder of the business and also the main doctor at the clinic. Would going to jail for a crime that's related to medical ethics mean that he would automatically get struck off? He cloned my main character, who's a Neandertal, and who's now 15 so the actual cloning took place 16 years ago and he's not done anything illegal before or since. In the story (set in 2055) unauthorised cloning of humans is illegal, plus he is also charged with fraudulently obtaining Neandertal DNA for the purposes of human cloning. I would guess that this would get him struck off? I did look up the rules on the GMC website but obviously it doesn't cover illegal cloning of Neandertals and while I found out a lot about what ethical rules doctors have to stick to, it didn't have much info about what can or can't get them struck off.
If he did get struck off, can he still continue to run his clinic as a director/shareholder, only running the business/financial side of it, while employing other doctors to do the medical work? Or would he have to sell the clinic (as in the whole business) to someone else? He has not committed any kind of medical malpractice and his patients consistently receive a high level of care.