I agree Doc greater scrutiny is required within all aspects of the NHS and professional bodies to prevent what appears to be a high ratio of Unfit to Practice Doctors being recruited in the first place. I do wonder if other countries hiring from overseas experience a similarly high proportion of bad apples - eg Australia :-
The national health regulator isn't acting quickly enough against a doctor accused of a string of serious surgical errors, Queensland's health minister says.
A urologist has been stood down from Rockhampton Hospital while he is being investigated for allegedly botching four operations.
He's accused of misdiagnosing a twisted testicle causing it to ultimately be removed, taking out a patient's right kidney instead of the diseased left one, nicking another's artery and incorrectly positioning a stent.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/na...ctor-concerns/
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Originally Posted by Dedworth
, an English consultant my misses worked under, he removed the testicle of a young guy because he believed it to be cancerous. From what I remember, you can only be certain once a biopsy had been carried out. When they found out it wasn't, the young guy complained, the consultant told him, 99% of the time he right. Yes, the guy has lost a testicle but if they didn't remove it, it could have cost him his life 
