GP who was suspended for poor recording keeping and delayed referrals is allowed to work again

A GP who was suspended for nine months from the UK medical register for failings in record keeping and delayed referral of seven patients may resume practice with conditions, a tribunal has ruled, despite the fact that he still refuses to accept many of the factual findings against him.

Kevin Newley, who qualified at the University of Leicester in 1982, was suspended last year by a medical practitioners tribunal after a hearing that spanned nearly two years with several adjournments.1 He was found to have failed to recommend a digital rectal examination in older male patients on 15 occasions when it was indicated. Several …