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Jozef Corridor/BBCThe care obtained by 800 sufferers at a world-renowned NHS hospital is to be reviewed by professional clinicians after a specialist surgeon was suspended.
Final month, it was reported the orthopaedic surgeon at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, had been suspended after considerations have been raised by colleagues in October.
An preliminary overview by Cambridge College Hospitals NHS Basis Belief (CUH) revealed therapy supplied to 9 youngsters was “beneath the usual we might anticipate”.
The surgeon specialised in youngsters, but additionally carried out emergency orthopaedic procedures on adults, the belief’s chief government Roland Sinker mentioned.
The overview will assess the therapy given to 700 sufferers who had deliberate operations, and one other 100 grownup and youngster sufferers who had emergency therapy.
Andrew Kennedy KC has been appointed by the belief to chair a panel of professional clinicians to undertake the exterior retrospective medical overview.
He mentioned: “We’ll work tirelessly to look at all of the circumstances throughout the scope of this overview and to make sure that any shortcomings in care are recognized as shortly as doable in order that sufferers and households are absolutely knowledgeable and additional consultations and therapy will be provided as acceptable.”
Steve Hubbard/BBCThe belief confirmed considerations have been raised as early as 2015 concerning the work of the surgeon, who shouldn’t be being named for authorized causes.
This was the topic of an exterior medical overview in 2016.
The surgeon’s medical observe was restricted final 12 months as a precautionary measure they usually have been co-operating with the belief since their suspension, it added.
CUH has commissioned specialist investigations firm Verita to hold out an unbiased investigation into what was identified concerning the surgeon’s observe “and whether or not there have been alternatives to have recognized these points sooner”, it mentioned.
Mr Sinker mentioned: “We stay very sorry that this has occurred and we apologise unreservedly to our sufferers and their households.
“We perceive the misery and anxiousness that households are experiencing and we need to do all the things we will to assist them via this era.”
A delegated household liaison officer has been appointed “as some extent of continuity for sufferers and households throughout this time”, he added.
