Addenbrooke's surgeon suspended after performing wrong operation

An orthopaedic surgeon falsified records and lied to a patient after he performed the wrong operation on her. 

Alan Norrish admitted performing the wrong type of partial knee replacement on his patient in January 2018 at the Nuffield Hospital in Cambridge. Having realised his mistake the former Addenbrooke's consultant tried to cover it up by falsifying records and doing "revision" surgery six days later.

Mr Norrish has been suspended for a year following a medical tribunal. He told the hearing of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) he was "shocked" and "upset" when he realised his mistake. It was found he had lied in a letter to a hospital matron about the reason for the second operation, which was carried out on 25 January 2018.

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Source: BBC News, 30 August 2019