Surgeon who failed to tell his private patients that he was barred from performing colonoscopies is struck off

A consultant surgeon who carried out two colonoscopies without telling his private patients that his NHS trust had barred him from performing the procedure has been struck off the UK medical register.Hugo Taylor left polyps unvisualised and unmanaged in both of the patients and failed to retrieve an excised polyp in one. He later refused to give that patient a refund.After he missed performance targets in 2016, a letter from the director of endoscopy at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust informed Taylor that, “as you fail to reach these targets and in line with our conversation at the 7th of March, I’ve asked you to stop performing colonoscopy.”He was later reminded by the trust of his duty to tell other providers using his services about the restriction, but he failed to inform the private Spire Hartswood Hospital, where he performed the two colonoscopies in question. Nor did…
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