Madeleine McCann's mother returns to work after 14 years: GP Kate back on the NHS frontline at hospital in Leicester to help fight Covid pandemic 'to assist others in need'

Madeleine McCann's mother returns to work after 14 years: GP Kate back on the NHS frontline at hospital in Leicester to help fight Covid pandemic 'to assist others in need'

• Kate worked as a GP when daughter Madeleine disappeared in Portugal in 2007
  
  
• She left her job in 2007 amid the globally publicised search for Madeleine
  
  
• Kate's return marks the end of a 14-year hiatus from medicine and a full-time job 
  
  
• A family source said she's 'delighted' to be back at work amid the Covid crisis
  
  
• Madeleine meanwhile has never been found and is presumed dead
  
  
• Her alleged killer is already in prison in Germany for several sexual offences
  
  

By DAVID AVERRE FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 19:44, 20 September 2021 | UPDATED: 22:14, 20 September 2021

Madeleine McCann's mother Kate has returned to work as a doctor in Leicester after a 14-year hiatus from medicine after the disappearance of her daughter.

Kate, who was working as a GP when Madeleine disappeared on holiday in Portugal in 2007, has re-joined the NHS frontline in the fight against Coronavirus in what has been one of the nation's worst-hit cities.

Her return to work at Leicester hospitals also sees her work at times alongside husband Gerry, who is Professor of Cardiac Imaging at the University of Leicester and a renowned consultant cardiologist at several Leicester hospitals.

She is reported to be enjoying her time back at work, and has been lauded by a family friend for 'throwing herself back into a full time job to assist others in need'.

Madeleine, who vanished on May 3, 2007 during a McCann family holiday in Praia del Luz, Portugal, was never found and is presumed dead.

Kate and Gerry McCann are both doctors who met in Glasgow while they were both studying in Scotland in 1993.

Kate, 53, studied medicine at the University of Dundee before becoming a GP, while husband Gerry, 53, studied at the University of Glasgow and is a consultant cardiologist.

Following Madeleine's disappearance, Kate quit her job as a GP and became an ambassador for several children's charities, but never returned to full-time work or work within medicine.

A friend of the family told The Sun: 'Kate's back working as a doctor. She's helping out at her local hospitals now and not doing any surgery work.

'She has thrown herself back into a full time job to assist others in need.

'There's such a demand for qualified medics during these unprecedented times.

'Kate's enjoying doing her little bit to help but we hardly ever see her and Gerry now. They are both so busy.'

Leicester and its population of 350,000 was hit harder by Coronavirus and the resulting restrictions than any other part of the UK.

The city entered lockdown on March 23, 2020, and was the only place in the country to remain in some form of lockdown for over a year due to the number of cases in the area.

The city did not emerge from lockdown until April 2021.

On May 3, 2007, Kate and Gerry McCann left their three children in their holiday flat on the Algarve coast of Portugal to go to dinner with friends.

They say that they repeatedly went to check on the kids over the course of the evening, but when Kate checked in at 10pm, she discovered Madeleine had disappeared.

While the incident triggered a global hunt for the girl and her kidnapper and drew widespread media attention, Madeleine was never found.

However, police believe that Christian Brueckner, a convicted rapist, paedophile and serial sex offender, was likely the little girl's killer.

Brueckner, 44, is being investigated over several other attacks, including on a 10-year-old girl, as well as the murder of a teenager in Belgium.

The rapist is currently being held in a high security prison in Oldenburg, near Bremen in northern Germany.

Investigators believe he abducted and killed three-year-old Madeleine in Portugal in 2007, while prosecutor Hans Wolters said German police felt 'there is good basis' to suspect Brueckner is responsible for a sex attack on a 10-year-old girl.

The attack happened just six miles from Praia da Luz where Madeleine had disappeared one month earlier.

Brueckner meanwhile has denied any involvement in Madeleine's disappearance, and has leaked cartoons that he has drawn from his prison cell mocking prosecutors who hold him as their prime suspect.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10010069/Madeleine-McCanns-GP-mother-Kate-returns-work-NHS-frontline-help-fight-Covid-pandemic.html


Just in time to help vaccinate all the children  

Some comments from The Mirror ^^^  

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/madeleine-mccanns-mum-returns-work-25031280

I BET they get 'whooshed' before coffee time.

The comments are great.

I've just clicked-on this thread.

Immediately my internet security software popped-up a message warning me about sharing personal medical details online.



I think I'm being watched.

Jeez, are we really that short on qualified doctors in the UK? I really hope that after 14 years Miss cadaver pants has undergone some serious retraining. Why couldn't they fill this position with a doctor whose training is up to date? Couldn't find someone who was willing to write Covid on all death certificates or is it her ability to find so many cadavers in a week?

Leicester hospital needs a thorough investigation.

I was just checking-out the retraining aspect.

You can't just walk back into a profession you left 14 years prior - especially the health industry where peoples lives are dependent on your skill.

I note from one press report, Ms Healy will not be involved in surgery - was she ever?  Is that not a discipline in itself?

More waste paper for the inferno!

https://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/career-progression/applying-for-a-job/returning-to-clinical-practice-after-absence

Ms Healy could never quite make up her mind as to where her commitment truly lay. Maybe she has now found her niche, when she's not dabbling with the Friends Inc. fraternity..



https://www.missingpeople.org.uk/about-the-charity/who-we-are/our-patrons-and-ambassadors

PeterMac wrote:I BET they get 'whooshed' before coffee time.

GONE NOW

All of them

Kate and Gerry McCann: “We will never give up hope”

4TH JUNE 2020

Mrs McCann stopped working as a GP after her daughter went missing to focus on campaign work and her two other children, twins Amelie and Sean, aged just two when Madeleine disappeared.

She poured her energies into charity work, including as an ambassador for the Missing People charity, before returning to work in another area of medicine.

https://theguideliverpool.com/kate-and-gerry-mccann-we-will-never-give-up-hope/

The NEWS about Ms Healy's return to work in the field of medicine has been rattling around for months, unless of course she's yet again changed allegiance to a specific discipline. Not meaning to sound too harsh, if the lady has returned to the field of helping people, well done I say! Too little too late others might say!

If the latest report is designed to help save the NHS in these troubled times, I think they are weeing up the wrong lamppost. That ship sailed eighteen months ago and ditched it's cargo somewhere in the deep blue.

Again too little too late!

Still, it's good to know Ms Healy is still runner-upping for the 'woman of the year' throne.

Maddie McCann's doctor mum returns to NHS frontline 14 years after daughter's disappearance

Former GP Kate is now working in hospitals in Leicester tackling the coronavirus crisis.

ByJon HebditchReporter

13:13, 23 SEP 2021

Madeleine McCann's doctor mum has returned to the NHS frontline some 14 years after her daughter disappeared.

Former GP Kate is now working in hospitals in Leicester tackling the coronavirus crisis, the Daily Mirror reports.

Kate quit her job in 2007 after little Madeleine vanished in during a family holiday in Praia da Luz on the Algarve in 2007.

The long-standing mystery over the youngsters disappearance continues but a family friend has revealed that Kate has "thrown herself back into a full time job to assist others in need".

Husband Gerry, a cardiologist in the Midlands city, will at times be working at the same hospital as his wife.

But the pair are expected to "hardly ever see" each other because they'll be "both so busy".

The pal told the Sun: “Kate’s back working as a doctor. She’s helping out at her local hospitals now and not doing any surgery work.

“She has thrown herself back into a full time job to assist others in need.

"There's such a demand for qualified medics during these unprecedented times."

The couple vowed to never stop looking for their daughter when Maddie disappeared aged three.

Prime suspect in the case, Christian Brueckner, 44, is being investigated over at least five other sex crimes, German prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters has said.

Mr Wolters said detectives believe “there is a good basis” to suspect the German paedophile also carried out a sex assault on a girl of 10.

The victim was grabbed by a naked man, who performed a sex act.

The allegation is said to have taken place six miles from where Maddie, three, vanished in Praia da Luz a month later in 2007, while on holiday with parents Kate and Gerry.

Mr Wolters said officers are also investigating Brueckner over the killing of 16-year-old Carola Titze in De Haan, Belgium, in 1996, and the rape of a 20-year-old Irish woman in Praia de Rocha, Portugal, in 2004.

And he said his department had been called in by officers probing Brueckner on suspicion of the disappearance of a five-year-old girl Inga Gehricke – in 2015, as well as claims he carried out a sex act in front of children in a playground in Messines, 40 miles from Praia da Luz, in 2017.

Mr Wolters speaks in a new book My Search for ­Madeleine, by British journalist Jon Clarke.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/maddie-mccanns-doctor-mum-returns-25054283

The Daily Record wrote:Maddie McCann's doctor mum returns to NHS frontline 14 years after daughter's disappearance

Former GP Kate is now working in hospitals in Leicester tackling the coronavirus crisis.

That makes no sense whatsoever.

'Tackling the coronavirus' ? This is not a rugby scrum, although sometimes it feels like that, so how exactly is Ms Healy tackling? Testing ? Vaccinating ? Advising ? Triage ?

What is she supposed to be - an errant Florence Nightingale, Weewee Willy Winkle, The Pimpernel Scarlet, The Pied Piper ?

What a load of old cobblers. What's it got to do with Brueckner ....

Blimey, this story has even made The New York Post  

Why would Americans care about this woman?

https://nypost.com/2021/09/25/mother-of-madeleine-mccann-working-as-doctor-again/