Belfast-based neurologist gave patients drugs with toxic side-effects, tribunal told

Dr Michael Watt had previously worked at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast (Picture: Liam McBurney/PA)

An assessment report into a Belfast-based neurologist found that he repeatedly failed to make correct diagnoses, which led to patients inappropriately being given drugs with “serious and toxic side-effects”, a fitness to practise tribunal has heard.

The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) hearing into Dr Michael Watt was also told that the assessment found his use of “idiosyncratic diagnostic criteria” had led to patients receiving unnecessary invasive treatment.