Trust ‘forced out’ senior doctor who raised safety concerns

A prestigious teaching hospital constructively dismissed the head of its transplant unit after he raised safety concerns about Great Ormond Street Hospital, a tribunal heard.

An employment judge ruled Professor Nizam Mamode had been constructively dismissed by Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust, who employed him as their clinical lead for adult and peadiatric transplants.

GSTT suspended Professor Mamode from practising in June 2020 and removed him from his leadership role, saying his behaviour had caused relationships with colleagues to break down.

Professor Mamode told the tribunal these complaints had been made after “collusion” with GOSH after he had raised safety concerns with that trust’s medical director Sanjiv Sharma.

He claimed another consultant at GOSH, where Professor Mamode held an honorary post, had put a patient at risk. These concerns prompted a review of the renal transplant service between January and March 2020. HSJ asked GOSH for the result of this review and the trust said “no immediate safety concerns were found”.

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Source: HSJ, 8 July 2024