Doctor who agreed to gender abortion of baby girl could be struck off
Dr Palaniappan Rajmohan will face a Fitness to Practise panel convened by the General Medical Council, after being exposed in a Telegraph investigation (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - April 22, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: general medical council gmc abortion fitness to practise Palaniappan Rajmohan Prabha Sivaraman Source Type: news
Surgeon who punched patient in face to 'fix broken cheekbone' defends methods
Professor Ninian Peckitt erased from medical register after hearing told he curled hand into fist, pulled it back six inches and repeatedly struck patient under anaesthetic (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - April 21, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Ninian Peckitt Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service punch Surgeon anaesthetic professor struck off operation Source Type: news
Surgeon who punched patient up to 10 times in face to 'fix broken cheekbone' is struck off
Professor Ninian Peckitt erased from medical register after hearing told he curled hand into fist, pulled it back six inches and repeatedly struck patient under anaesthetic (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - April 21, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Ninian Peckitt Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service punch Surgeon anaesthetic professor struck off operation Source Type: news
Mental Health group critical of Graham Stuart Brown case
Concern expressed at failure to act quicker in instance of nurse struck off for sexual conduct (Source: The Irish Times - Health)
Source: The Irish Times - Health - March 19, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Male nurse struck off for sexual contact with patient
Two nurses had relationships with psychiatric clients and third stole €24,000 (Source: The Irish Times - Health)
Source: The Irish Times - Health - March 18, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Prison nurse struck off over alleged attempt to steal maracas
A community mental health nurse has been struck off after allegedly attempting to smuggle a tambourine and maracas used for the treatment of patients out of a high security prison in his rucksack. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - March 13, 2015 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Former director struck off
A former nursing home director has been struck off for failing to protect the vulnerable people in her care
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Source: Nursing in Practice - January 22, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Lucinda Borrell Tags: Professional Editor ' s pick Featured Articles Latest News Source Type: news
Nurse director struck off for failing to safeguard care home residents
A former nursing director has been struck off the Nursing and Midwifery Council register after the regulator found she had failed to ensure vulnerable residents at a “deteriorating” care home were safeguarded from potential harm. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - January 20, 2015 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Mumps Hits National Hockey League
If you're old enough, you remember kids sent home from school, cheeks swollen like chipmunks. Mumps is a very contagious disease, and one that most people younger than me have never seen. This is a good thing, since mumps in children can sometimes lead to deafness. In adults, it can swell the testicles, breasts, and the brain. Painfully. Thankfully, mumps was nearly eradicated dropping to just 248 cases in 2004. And then Wakefield happened. Certainly Andrew Wakefield, cannot be held solely responsible for the rise in cases of measles and mumps in the US and UK, but in my opinion he certainly bears some responsibility. In 1...
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - December 10, 2014 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Peter Lipson Source Type: news
Thousands more face being struck off by 'overstretched' GPs
GPs say they are in the grip of a recruitment crisis and cannot provide safe care for the rising numbers of people moving to their areas. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 28, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Junior doctor is struck off for taking sick leave to work on show-jumping TV coverage
After Ed Holloway a junior urologist at Sc.horpe General Hospital, returned to work with a suntan – even though the weather at home had been miserable – they became suspicious. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 23, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
European doctors three times more likely to be struck off: GMC
Doctors who qualified from overseas are more likely to have a complaint made about them, or to be suspended or struck off, report says (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - October 8, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: EEA GMC overseas doctors daniel ubani European doctors Source Type: news
Cosmetic surgeon struck off after botched ops can operate again WITHOUT restriction
Rita Nugent, 31, was left disfigured after a £2,200 nose job by Olufemi Adeogba, who went to the High Court to reverse the decision to strike him off the medical register. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 23, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Shaken baby expert faces 'witch hunt'
Doctor who stood up for parents accused of killing their children and challenged existence of the syndrome could be struck off over her testimony (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - September 14, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Dr Waney Squier Shaken baby syndrome Source Type: news
35,000 patients wrongly struck off GP registers
Patients are being denied check-ups and cancer screening after being cut off NHS lists as health authorities botch attempts to update records (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - September 2, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
