Leading oncologist suspended for “cavalier attitude” to treatment returns to practice

Justin Stebbing, an oncologist with a world reputation, has been allowed to return to practice nine months after he was suspended from the medical register for his “cavalier approach” to consent, treatment, and prognosis.1Stebbing, who was a professor of cancer medicine and oncology at Imperial College London with a private practice in Harley Street, was suspended after a medical practitioners tribunal found that he had overtreated cancer patients at the end of their lives. He was found to have failed to provide good clinical care to 12 private patients between 2014 and 2017 and to have been dishonest on four occasions over a 10 day period.A review tribunal lifted his suspension after concluding that he had remedied his failings and kept his clinical skills up-to-date. He told the tribunal that not seeing patients over the past nine months had been “terrible” and added, “I should not have treated any of…
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