How Are Doctors Hired?

21st February 2014

No interviews, no CV's - just a recommendation, apparently.

A bungling surgeon who landed a top NHS job on a relative’s recommendation has been struck off for his ‘shocking failings’ after he botched seven operations in just three months.

Dr Faisal Sultan Siddiqui, 57, was ‘out of his depth’ when he was handed a locum post as consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Kingston Hospital, in south west London.The hospital didn’t bother to interview him or even check his CV after a ‘family member working at the trust’ put in a good word, a tribunal heard.

But in just three months the medic managed to make a string of basic errors, leaving patients worse off than they were before they had been treated.

Blundering Siddiqui has now been struck off by a fitness to practise panel in Manchester, chaired by Sheila Hollingworth, who said his actions ‘raised serious concerns for patient safety’.‘Dr Siddiqui was appointed to the locum post having neither been interviewed nor having had his CV reviewed, apparently following a personal recommendation from a family member working at the trust.'The trust was recruiting additional staff at that time in order to meet waiting list targets,’ Mrs Hollingworth said.

'The panel has noted that Dr Siddiqui was appointed to a locum consultant post without the appropriate interview and pre-appointment checks being undertaken by the trust. 'This is, of course, primarily the trust’s responsibility but the panel considers that Dr Siddiqui also had a responsibility to practise within the limits of his competence in this post which included the adequate supervision of trainee surgeons. 'Dr Siddiqui appears to have accepted a post for which he might not have been appropriately trained, skilled or experienced.

'Siddiqui was referred to the GMC when a patient complained to the Kingston Hospital, where he was employed as a locum between January and March 2010. During the subsequent investigation seven patients were identified where the doctor’s care fell below, or in six cases seriously below, the standard expected of a ‘reasonably competent consultant orthopaedic surgeon.One of the patients was a five-year-old girl, known as Patient A, with a broken arm who had to undergo a second procedure after the surgeon failed to sufficiently reduce the fracture. - See more at: http://www.courtnewsuk.co.uk/?news_id=35967#sthash.hdky8o3m.dpuf

i watched a programme quite some time back and an asian man and his two wives were making a fortune bringing in other asians will false documentation, hey were all jailed, everyone they brought in and it was quite a number, were medical or dental students at the time I wondered if any of those would actually try to take jobs within those profession rather than just steal in to the country, perhaps this is such a case..