{"id":860,"date":"2021-07-05T10:37:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T09:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dr-hadiza-bawa-garba-can-return-to-unrestricted-practice\/"},"modified":"2021-07-05T10:37:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T09:37:15","slug":"dr-hadiza-bawa-garba-can-return-to-unrestricted-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dr-hadiza-bawa-garba-can-return-to-unrestricted-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba Can Return to Unrestricted Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/dariusz-sankowski-ABAmxzlot8E-unsplash-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5512\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MANCHESTER\u2014A doctor who received a suspended jail sentence over the death of a 6-year-old boy can return to unrestricted practice, a medical tribunal has ruled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba returned to work last November for the first time in 5 years after a raft of conditions were imposed on her registration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In November 2015 a jury convicted her of gross negligence manslaughter in her treatment of Jack Adcock, who developed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/emedicine.medscape.com\/article\/234587-overview\">sepsis<\/a>&nbsp;and died of cardiac arrest at Leicester Royal Infirmary in February 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A month later she was sentenced to 2 years in jail, suspended for the same period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conditions &#8216;Not in the Public Interest&#8217;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Friday, she was informed at a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) hearing there were no longer any outstanding concerns over her clinical practice, and it was not in the public interest to maintain the conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among her failures in Jack&#8217;s treatment were making an incorrect diagnosis of gastroenteritis on initial examination of the youngster \u2013 who had&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/emedicine.medscape.com\/article\/943216-overview\">Down&#8217;s syndrome<\/a>&nbsp;and a heart condition \u2013 and not acting on a clinical reading which &#8220;ought to have been a clear indicator&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The doctor was &#8220;on the cusp&#8221; of becoming a consultant before the incident, as a specialist registrar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Bawa-Garba was barred from practice for 12 months before the General Medical Council (GMC) took the case to the High Court to appeal against the sanction, saying it was &#8220;not sufficient&#8221;, and Dr Bawa-Garba was struck off in January 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later, the Court of Appeal ruled her name should be restored to the medical register and her case sent back to the MPTS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/954148#vp_2\">Read the full article here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANCHESTER\u2014A doctor who received a suspended jail sentence over the death of a 6-year-old boy can return to unrestricted practice, a medical tribunal has ruled.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,92,58],"tags":[38,435,40,83,49,263,51],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dauk-news","category-learn-not-blame","category-the-nhs","tag-dauk","tag-dauk-news","tag-dr-jenny-vaughan","tag-hadiza-bawa-garba","tag-learn-not-blame","tag-medical-law","tag-medscape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}