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A consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist who sterilised a patient without consent during a caesarean section, and has since been unable to explain why he did it, has been suspended from the UK medical register for 12 months. A barrister representing Olusegun Olujide at one point sought unsuccessfully to have the medical practitioners tribunal panel recuse itself from the case, alleging that its “adversarial” questioning of the Nigerian trained doctor had ignored his distress and had sought to imply that his actions were due to cultural differences arising from his race or nationality. O...

A former GP and climate activist who spent 32 days in prison for breaching an injunction banning protests outside an oil terminal against the production and use of fossil fuels has been suspended from the UK medical register for five months. Sarah Benn told a medical practitioners tribunal that she refused to remediate her conduct but intended to continue protesting until the government took urgent action to protect its citizens and future generations from the effects of climate breakdown. She said that she was “blowing my whistle as loud as I can.” The tribunal emphasised that professiona...

An NHS mental health trust has been fined £200 000 for failing to provide safe care and treatment for two patients who took their own lives. Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust pleaded guilty after a prosecution by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) over the deaths of Christie Harnett and an adult patient anonymised by reporting restrictions as Person X. The trust was fined £140 000 over Christie’s death and £60 000 over X’s suicide and was ordered to pay £15 000 costs and a £170 victim surcharge. Harnett, aged 17 when she died at Middlesbrough’s West Lane Hospita...

Campaigners representing victims of the UK infected blood scandal say that government plans for a compensation scheme “fall far short” of proposals by the former High Court judge leading the public inquiry into the disaster. The former judge, Brian Langstaff, issued an interim report a year ago calling for a compensation scheme to be set up urgently for people affected by government failings that allowed thousands to be given blood and blood products infected with HIV and hepatitis C in the 1970s and 1980s. The work of the scheme should begin in 2023, he said.1 Last December, when the Vict...

A consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist has been allowed back on the medical register on his third attempt, 13 years after his erasure. Medhat Keshta was struck off in 2011 for giving the NHS trust which employed him as a locum consultant a letter containing falsehoods in support of his claim for a higher salary, and then claiming special leave for a back problem when in reality he planned to take a higher paying job at another trust. The tribunal that struck him off found that he had produced a letter in late 2009, allegedly obtained by a colleague at a trust where he had previously worke...