Former surgeon is suspended for six months for operating without consent on four patients

A former consultant colorectal surgeon has been suspended from the UK medical register for six months for carrying out operations on four patients without their informed consent.Tony Dixon, who practised at Southmead Hospital in Bristol and at Spire Healthcare’s private hospital in the city, failed to advise patients A, F, G, and J of the risks involved in their procedures, a medical practitioners tribunal has concluded. In the cases of F and G, he carried out procedures that they were not expecting and which they had not consented to.Dixon, a pioneer in the use of laparoscopic ventral mesh rectopexy (LVMR), was suspended by North Bristol NHS Trust in 2017. He also had his practising privileges withdrawn by Spire and has not practised since 2017.He was reported to the General Medical Council and had interim conditions placed on his registration. These banned him from carrying out LVMR, stapled transanal rectal resection…
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