Doctor struck off British register may work here

A DOCTOR whose name was removed from the British medical register last year can continue to work in Ireland provided he does not work in any independent capacity.

This is among the conditions set down by the Medical Council last October after its fitness to practise committee found Dr Hassan Hassan Baker, a consultant anaesthetist, guilty of professional misconduct.

However, the council’s British counterpart, the General Medical Council (GMC), considered it “insufficient” to attach conditions and opted instead to strike his name from its medical register. Following a complaint alleging Dr Baker’s management of acute and complex cases could put patients at risk, the GMC decided that, in the circumstances, it was “satisfied that conditions would be insufficient to protect the interests of the public”.