Surgeon on restricted duty faces legal probe

Tuesday 21st December 2010, 2:58PM GMT.

The surgeon is on restricted duties

A FILE has been passed to Jersey Law Officers’ Department to consider whether a surgeon suspended from the Hospital after a patient died in 2008 following an operation should face charges.

The patient, understood to be in his 70s, died before Christmas 2008 after being admitted to Accident and Emergency and following two operations within days of each other. The States police were informed of the death and started an investigation.

The surgeon was initially suspended, but is now believed to be on restricted duties instead. That means he is no longer suspended, but is banned from operating without supervision and restricted from carrying out other duties.

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