BMJ 1994;308:809 (26 March)

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Consultant found guilty of failing to act on colleague

Clare Dyer 

A senior consultant was found guilty of serious professional misconduct by the General Medical Council (GMC) last week for failing to investigate complaints that a locum was endangering patients. The professional conduct committee found Dr Sean Dunn, 45, who is chairman of the anaesthetics division of East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, guilty for not having acted on concerns that colleagues had expressed about the competence of Dr Behrooz Irani. But the committee took into account a shortage of anaesthetists and problems in procedures for locum appointments and imposed no sanction on Dr Dunn.

Dr Irani, who was struck off last July, was allowed to work in two NHS hospitals because of staff shortages, the GMC heard. In August 1992 at Castle Hill Hospital, Hill, he left a 33 year old man seriously brain damaged and in a persistent vegetative state after an open discectomy. Six months later a similar . . . [Full text of this article]


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