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Quote "Only five of the 12 surgeons on the rota for emergency surgery are on the General Medical Council’s specialist register, inclusion on which is requirement for a consultant’s post. One of the emergency surgeons who is not on the register was responsible for a “never event” in 2016 when a medical specimen bag and the removed part of a bowel was left inside a patient after hernia operation".
Has it really got to the stage where you have to check a health professional's credentials before allowing them anywhere near you. Physician Associates, surgeons not on the specialist register and in the case of Royal Blackburn Hospital doctors and nurses not on any register. Welcome to NHS UK 2025.