A surgeon’s “slip of the pen” should not have been the basis for him being subjected to the “extremely threatening ordeal” of a public inquiry by the Medical Council, the Supreme Court has said.

A FERTILITY clinic which requires couples seeking a treatment to be married is sticking with its position despite one of its doctors being brought before the Medical Council over its stance.

HUGE changes in the way the medical profession will be policed in the future were unveiled yesterday by the Tánaiste and Minister for Health Mary Harney.