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Former university consultant wins appeal against erasure
High Court in Belfast substitutes six-month suspension for dentist struck off over allegations about treatment of patients
at Royal Victoria Hospital The High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland has quashed the General Dental Council’s decision to remove a consultant in oral medicine from the register of dentists. Professor Philip-John Lamey was
working at the Queen’s University Belf- fast (QUB) School of Dentistry, The Royal Victoria Hospital, in Belfast, when allega- tions were made relating to the treatment of 27 patients between 2006 and 20ı0. There were 46 initial heads of charge in
this case, containing 2ı5 allegations – ıı0 of which were found proved.
On 30 September 20ı4, the GDC’s Profes-
sional Conduct Committee made the decision to erase and suspend Prof Lamey, to which he immediately appealed. On 27 March, the High Court overturned that decision and substituted the order with an order of suspension for a period of six months with a review. In a statement, the GDC said: “Professor
Lamey’s appeal alleged that the PCC made errors in parts, but not all, of their decision. The GDC accepts that the PCC did make some errors in their decision and the court (with the GDC’s agreement) has ordered that the PCC’s decision that Professor Lamey be erased from the Dentists Register should be substituted with a six- month suspen- sion order.” The original GDC decision came
about after ı35 of Prof Lamey’s patients had to be recalled after 35 developed
Dishonest dentist struck off SUSPENSION CONCEALED
A Greek dentist who tried to register with the Dental Council of Ireland while suspended by the General Dental Council in the UK has been struck off. Panagiotis Papadimos, who qualified in Thessaloniki in Greece in ı98ı, first registered as a dentist in the UK in 2005. He was removed from the register in January 2006 after failing to pay the annual reten- tion fee, but was re-registered in February the following year. Following a complaint to the
GDC and subsequent inves- tigation by the Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) in February 20ı2, Mr Papadimos was suspended for ı2 months. The suspension was
continued for a further ı2 months in March 20ı3 following a review, and again in March 20ı4. In March 20ı5 an indefinite suspension was placed on his registration. On 25 January 20ı4, Mr Papadimos applied to the
cancer and four subsequently died. He was removed from his job in 20ıı and, in August last year, he lost his case for unfair dismissal against QUB. He had claimed that he wasn’t
given adequate notice of dismissal as well as claiming for two and a half months’ salary and damages. The tribunal ruled unanimously that QUB had followed the contract properly and dismissed the case.
Professor Philip Lamey
Dental Council for registration and, after council staff checked his name against the GDC register, he was reported to the UK regulator. As a result, the GDC’s
PCC found his conduct to be misleading, deliberately misleading and dishonest. A statement from the PCC read: “A finding of dishonesty is a particularly grave matter for a dentist, given the trust which the public places in the profes- sion, and the need to maintain confidence in the same. “There is nothing before
the committee which suggests that Mr Papadimos has any insight into the implications of his misconduct on the reputation of the profes- sion. On the contrary, the evidence demonstrates that his misleading of the Dental Council of Ireland was wilful and deliberate and he inten- tionally sought to conceal the details of his practice in the UK, which would have revealed his ongoing suspen- sion from the GDC Register.”
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