Eight month suspension for surgeon who sexually harassed colleagues “emboldens perpetrators,” say victims

Four female colleagues who worked with the transplant surgeon James Gilbert have written an open letter urging the General Medical Council or the Professional Standards Authority to appeal against his “inadequate” eight month suspension for sexual harassment and racist behaviour.1The letter, which has been posted on X by the palliative care doctor and author Rachel Clarke, is also addressed to the health secretary, Wes Streeting, as well as the head of NHS England, the Royal College of Surgeons, and the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS).The women, three of whom were surgical trainees, gave evidence at a tribunal, which this month ruled that Gilbert had sexually harassed them and inappropriately touched three of them.2 He was also found to have made inappropriate sexual and racist comments and abused his senior position. He was dismissed from his job as a consultant transplant surgeon at the Oxford Transplant Centre in May 2022.The four…
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