Gynaecologist showed "lack of care and judgment"

BMJ 1998;317:965 ( 10 October )

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Gynaecologist showed "lack of care and judgment"

Clare Dyer, legal correspondent BMJ

A consultant gynaecologist who committed a catalogue of surgical blunders and left patients to be rescued by colleagues was struck off the medical register last week for serious professional misconduct.

Charges involving shortcomings in the treatment of 11 patients at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, Kent, and at St Saviour's Hospital (owned by the private health insurance scheme BUPA) in nearby Hythe, were found proved against Rodney Ledward, aged 58, of Folkestone, Kent, by the General Medical Council's professional conduct committee.

Mr Ledward was suspended from his NHS practice in February 1996 and summarily sacked without compensation in December 1996 for professional misconduct and incompetence after an independent inquiry.

Announcing the decision to erase his name from the register, Dr Jeremy Lee-Potter, chairman of the professional conduct committee, told Mr Ledward: "Trust is central to the doctor-patient relationship. Patients trust doctors . . . [Full text of this article]

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