A Luton-based common practitioner permitted his driver to carry out a breast examination on a younger mom throughout a house go to, but obtained only a warning from the Common Medical Council (GMC).
Dr. Godfrey Nkanu Emiku labored for Hertfordshire Pressing Care, which handles NHS 111 calls and out-of-hours main care. In February 2024, through the go to to the girl who had just lately given delivery, Dr. Emiku noticed the driving force—serving as a chaperone however missing medical coaching—conduct the examination. He neither intervened nor performed the examination himself.
The incident surfaced when the driving force knowledgeable a receptionist, prompting a right away alert. GMC investigators deemed the conduct ‘unacceptable and inappropriate,’ posing a danger to the occupation’s repute. Nevertheless, they permitted Dr. Emiku to proceed practising, citing his demonstrated perception and lack of ongoing danger to sufferers.
Hertfordshire Pressing Care performed an inside probe. Neither Dr. Emiku nor the driving force stays employed there. The corporate states: ‘Affected person security {and professional} requirements stay our high priorities. We notified the affected person and addressed the matter transparently and sensitively.’
Broader Sample of Mild Sanctions
This case kinds a part of 109 situations over the previous 12 months the place medical doctors confronted self-discipline from the GMC or Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) however obtained solely warnings, permitting continued NHS and personal follow regardless of breaches.
Warnings handle lapses in conduct, judgment, and affected person security. Notable examples embrace:
- Dr. Suhail Anjum, 44, an anaesthetist at Tameside Hospital in Better Manchester, left a affected person on the working desk to have interaction in intercourse with a nurse close by. A colleague found them; he returned after eight minutes to finish the process. The MPTS issued a warning, discovering no impairment to his health to follow.
- Dr. Ali Shokouh-Amiri, former head of gynaecological oncology at Guernsey’s Princess Elizabeth Hospital, confronted over 100 allegations, together with eradicating two ladies’s ovaries with out consent, hugging sufferers, and intimate exams with out chaperones. He obtained a warning; the GMC has appealed to the Excessive Court docket.
- Heart specialist Dr. Amer Ali Bilal Hamed, ex-director of the British Islamic Medical Affiliation, mimed capturing sufferers with finger weapons, shouted at a affected person, and made religion- and gender-based remarks to workers at Torbay and South Devon NHS Basis Belief. He was reprimanded.
- Dr. Susan Walker misinterpreted an irregular ECG and did not refer the affected person urgently to cardiology.
- Dr. Rohini Priyanka Samaratunga misdiagnosed dehydration indicators throughout a telephone seek the advice of and omitted an A&E referral.
GMC’s Stance on Warnings
Warnings signify critical failings after rigorous evaluate and keep on information for 2 years. The GMC appeals MPTS selections deemed inadequate for public safety, together with these for Dr. Shokouh-Amiri and Dr. Anjum.
