Consultant who breached tribunal’s conditions and failed to remediate is struck off

A former locum consultant in stroke medicine who breached conditions imposed on him by a medical practitioners tribunal has been struck off the UK medical register, after a new hearing found that he continued to challenge the original tribunal’s findings and the regulator’s authority.

In 2016 Joseph Nankhonya was found guilty of misconduct in treating two patients at Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He failed to arrange urgent brain imaging for one patient and conducted an inadequate assessment of another, the tribunal found, persisting in a wrong diagnosis after ultrasound scans contradicted it.

His conduct was originally considered …