Doctor fails in appeal over challenge to poor performance finding in Limerick hospital

A practice committee found in 2015 Dr Saqib Ahmed had failed to request basic tests for a man suffering with abdominal and back pain, and weight loss

Dr Ahmed was in November 2012 a junior registrar in oncology in University Hospital Limerick. File photo

A doctor has lost an appeal over a finding against him of poor professional performance involving the care of a 28-year-old patient.

The Court of Appeal (CoA) dismissed Dr Saqib Ahmed's appeal against the High Court dismissal of his judicial review challenge to the finding made by a Medical Council fitness to practice committee in 2015. His challenge was also on the grounds that there was no right to appeal Medical Council findings which don't involve the attachment of conditions to a doctor's registration and that was also dismissed.