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Warrington Hospital worker struck off - Warrington Guardian 29th October 2009
"A HOSPITAL worker who ‘joked’ about keeping human body parts in his freezer for work he was not qualified to do has been struck off by the Health Profession Council.
John Gough pretended to have passed a diploma in orthopaedics and researched at the University of Liverpool Hospital for five years, during which time he joked to his colleague at Warrington Hospital that he was storing body parts at home. "
Patients demand 'red tape' is cut to keep doctor at Carlisle hospital - Cumberland News 9th October 2009
"Patients are rallying round a popular Polish surgeon who they fear is being driven away from his job at Carlisle’s hospital by red tape.
Breast cancer specialist Zbigniew Obuszko would like to settle in Cumbria with his family but he wants first to get a permanent contract, according to his colleagues."
Fears over safety of foreign doctors - Daily Telegraph 5th September 2009
The number of doctors who have come to work in Britain from other parts of Europe without undergoing safety checks or extra training can be revealed for the first time.
Novices do nurses’ job after week’s training - The Sunday Times 29th August 2009
HEALTHCARE assistants in the National Health Service with as little as one week’s training are performing technical nursing tasks on patients, including heart tests, blood checks and changing dripfeeding bags.
The service is also relying on unqualified nursing staff to carry out basic duties such as washing patients and taking them to the toilet.
Junior doctors suspended from Welsh hospital jobs after exam mix-up - The Guardian 20th August 2009
Four were wrongly told they had gained medical degrees after 'clerical data error', but had actually failed one module
Sorry, you're not a doctor after all - The Times 20th August 2009
Four newly-qualified doctors in Wales have been told they haven't passed their final exams after all, and have been forced to hang up their stethoscopes after less than ten days to return to the classroom.
Cardiff University has admitted that due to a clerical error the four were given incorrect results, and must return to being students until they can resit the exam module that they failed. The mistake was potentially serious as it exposed patients to unqualified and potentially incompetent care.
Investigation ordered in unqualified doctors fiasco - Daily Telegraph 21st August 2009
A university has been ordered by the General Medical Council to investigate how four medical students were wrongly told they had passed all their final exams, allowing them to practise as doctors.
Inquiry into exam error doctors - BBC Health News 20th August 2009
How four medical students were told they passed their finals when in fact they had failed, must be investigated, the General Medical Council has said.
The medics, who had started work at hospitals in south and west Wales, have now been suspended from duty.
Doctors suspended after exam results blunder - The Independent 20th August 2009
Four junior doctors who were wrongly told they had passed all their final exams have been suspended, it was reported today.
The four started work at hospitals in south Wales two weeks ago after finishing their studies.
But according to the BBC, Cardiff University found they were given the wrong exam result for one module of their degree which resulted in them being immediately suspended from their posts.
Doctors suspended after exams blunder - The Telegraph 19th August 2009
Four junior doctors who were wrongly told they had passed all their final exams have been suspended from their posts in south Wales, according to reports.
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