Doctors appeal misconduct charge

TWO hospital consultants found guilty of professional misconduct are to seek a judicial review in the High Court of the Medical Council’s findings against them.

On Monday evening, Dr Walter Prendiville, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Coombe Women’s Hospital and Dr John Murphy, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, lodged papers in the High Court initiating a case against the Medical Council.

Both doctors were among three obstetricians found guilty of misconduct by the Medical Council for ecommending disgraced Drogheda obstetrician Dr Michael Neary be allowed to return to work despite concerns about the high number of caesarean hysterectomies he had carried out at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda. Dr Neary was subsequently struck off by the Medical Council after a review by a UK-based consultant found he had carried out unnecessary surgery on a number of women.