NHS<\/a> Trust said more than 200 patients had been given unnecessary bowel operations by Anthony Dixon.<\/p>\nA review found dozens of people suffered harm after the consultant gave them pelvic floor surgery using artificial mesh, a technique he had pioneered.<\/p>\n
Last July, he was suspended for six months after a medical tribunal ruled he failed to provide adequate clinical care to five patients between 2010 and 2016.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, he was erased from the medical register after the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) considered a new case brought against the surgeon by the General Medical Council.<\/p>\n
A MPTS tribunal found Mr Dixon \u201cknowingly\u201d created retrospective clinical notes for seven patients he treated at the city\u2019s private Spire Hospital.<\/p>\n
The notes were provided in 2020 as part of a review by Spire which was looking into whether he obtained consent for the procedures carried out.<\/p>\n
But the tribunal concluded they were \u201cconcocted\u201d after the patients\u2019 care had ended and were misrepresented as contemporaneous.<\/p>\n
Mr Dixon was also found to have submitted similar retrospective clinical notes to solicitors representing four patients in civil proceedings brought against him between 2018 and 2022.<\/p>\n
Tribunal chair Samantha Gray said: \u201cThe Tribunal considered that the dishonesty demonstrated by Mr Dixon was premediated and sustained, with concocted documents being provided to two bodies on numerous occasions over a four-year period.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt considered that there had been a serious breach of trust in the public\u2019s confidence in doctors, as well as the confidence of clinicians in their fellow professionals.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Tribunal acknowledged that Mr Dixon did not obtain any financial gain from his dishonesty. However, it considered that he stood to gain personally by seeking to protect his professional reputation.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn doing so, Mr Dixon placed his own interests above those of his patients, prioritising self-protection over his duty to uphold public trust in the profession and maintain proper professional standards and conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added his \u201congoing lack of insight\u201d into his failings \u2013 from both cases \u2013 was \u201ca significant aggravating factor, and one which weighs heavily in favour of erasure from the medical register\u201d.<\/p>\n
Lawyers for Mr Dixon, who denied misconduct, submitted that he had suffered a \u201cvery public fall from grace\u201d and erasure was not necessary as he had been \u201cpunished enough\u201d.<\/p>\n
They added he had not practised since 2017 and had retired when he was suspended by his employer, with no intention to return to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over 200 patients were given unnecessary bowel operations Kim Pilling, PA and Molly Seaman 16:23, 07 Aug 2025Updated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,211,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-326550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-nhs","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114990361095017562","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Spire Hospital, Bristol (Image: Google )<\/p>\n