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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Rebecca Thomas

Surgeon who sexually harassed colleagues could work on wards again within months

James Gilbert avoided being struck off following a high court ruling this week - (No permission)

A doctor who was suspended from the medical register last year for sexually and racially harassing junior colleagues could be working again within months.

Mr James Gilbert, a high profile transplant surgeon, was suspended for eight months by the Medical Practitioner’s Tribunal but the General Medical Council (GMC) launched an appeal arguing he should instead be erased from the medical register, which would ban him from working as a doctor.

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