The case against under-fire surgeon Christopher In

The case against under-fire surgeon Christopher Ingoldby should be thrown out because of the ‘exceptionally minor’ charges levelled at his conduct, the GMC heard today (TUE).

Ingoldby, 56, is accused of serious errors before, during and after operations on 12 patients between 1990 and 1997 at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield.

Six later died.

But shortly before the consultant surgeon was due to give evidence in his defence, his barrister Sally Smith QC applied for the case to be dismissed.

She claimed many of the allegations had not been proved by the counsel for the GMC and were not enough to support the charge of serious professional misconduct.

Miss Smith QC began by arguing against the allegation Ingoldby had failed to give accurate information about a patient’s cancer operation.

She said: ‘It is my submission there is no evidence whatsoever whether patient A himself felt dissatisfied with the information and to speculate on medical records is a very dangerous business.

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Miss Smith said she would later argue that many of the charges against Ingoldby were of ‘exceptionally minor degree.

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Ingoldby, of 2 Parkwood Gardens, Roundhay, Leeds, was appointed consultant gastro-intestinal surgeon at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield on January 1, 1990.

He denies serious professional misconduct.

The case continues.

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