Doctor suspended for dishonesty is struck off after claiming she had appealed the sanction while continuing to work

A public health doctor has been struck off the medical register by the Scottish Court of Session after the Professional Standards Authority (PSA) appealed against a medical practitioners tribunal decision to let her stay on the register with a 12 month suspension.1The court ruled that Hannah Austin’s “persistent dishonesty was so grave as to be wholly incompatible with her continued registration as a doctor.” The three judges quashed the tribunal’s sanction, noting that the decision had been “taken only by the narrowest of margins,” and substituted an order striking her off the register.The PSA and the General Medical Council (GMC) both have rights to appeal against decisions by medical practitioners tribunals, but the PSA exercises the right less frequently than the GMC. In this case the GMC considered an appeal but decided against it, concluding that 12 months’ suspension was not outside the range of sanctions reasonably open to the…
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