Two findings of poor professional performance have been made against a Consultant Gynaecologist, but he has been cleared of all other allegations at a Fitness to Practise inquiry.

A fitness to practise inquiry into a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist who performed hysterectomies on four elderly women has heard an expert witness defend his claims there may have been no clinical reason for the operations on two of the women.

A hysterectomy patient did sign a consent form before entering the operating theatre, a consultant anaesthetist told an inquiry yesterday, contrary to previous claims by the patient.

A consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist was “quite rude” to a patient when she questioned him after he performed a hysterectomy on her, an inquiry heard yesterday.