Surgeon banned by private practice is working for NHS

A surgeon banned from working for a private healthcare company, following an investigation into patient safety, continues to work in the NHS, the BBC has learned.

Nuffield Health has stopped the surgeon from working in their hospitals, but he is still operating on patients for the University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust.

An NHS patient left with a twisted bowel following an operation he carried out said he should never work again.

In January the BBC revealed concerns had been raised about the surgeon's complication rate and that he was no longer practising at Nuffield Health's hospital in Brighton pending an investigation.

A former employee at the hospital told the BBC that internal data showed one third of the surgeon's patients had experienced a "moderate harm event", where, for instance, a patient had to be transferred to another hospital or re-admitted, over a 12-month period. The figure should be 5%, the BBC was told.

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Source: BBC News, 11 July 2025