{"id":357526,"date":"2025-08-19T19:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T19:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/357526\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T19:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T19:25:10","slug":"former-dietician-deemed-risk-at-ipswich-hospital-struck-off-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/357526\/","title":{"rendered":"Former dietician deemed risk at Ipswich Hospital struck off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  David Brown was found to have put patients at risk by not maintaining records and lying while\u00a0working at Ipswich Hospital, run by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipswichstar.co.uk\/topics\/east-suffolk-and-north-essex-nhs-foundation-trust-esneft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT)<\/a>, between May 2019 and April 2020.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Brown had been hired to fill a position at ESNEFT&#8217;s\u00a0Oncology Dietetic Team, working with cancer and motor neurone disease patients, which was available due to secondment.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"Ipswich Hospital, where Mr Brown worked, is fun by ESNEFT\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Ipswich Hospital, where Mr Brown worked, is run by ESNEFT (Image: Newsquest) Mr Brown has since been struck off as\u00a0healthcare professional after the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service ruled that his inaccurate record-keeping presented an &#8220;unacceptable risk to future service users&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Those actions include\u00a0failing\u00a0to record full information from his appointments with 18 service users and provide full\u00a0documentation about interventions with 14 patients, waiting five months before logging a patient appointment and claiming to have visited a patient, despite them dying a month beforehand.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As a result of the tribunal hearing, held on Tuesday, August 12, Mr Brown has been banned from serving as a medical practitioner from Friday, September 5.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"The trust also runs Colchester Hospital \" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>The trust also runs Colchester Hospital (Image: Archant) The HCPTS said: &#8220;His lack of application to his role would be considered by fellow practitioners to have seriously undermined the collective responsibility of upholding and maintaining the standards of their profession.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;His management of service users who were vulnerable, and in some cases frail, exposed them to the risk of harm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Similarly, it was decided the public would be concerned if a practitioner who had ignored the wellbeing of those under his care, and had been so neglectful of his responsibilities over such a long period of time, were to be allowed to continue in practice without some form of restriction on his practice.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  ESNEFT said that as Mr Brown was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipswichstar.co.uk\/topics\/ipswich-hospital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">no longer employed by the trust<\/a>, and hasn&#8217;t been since April 2020, it would not provide a comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Brown was found to have put patients at risk by not maintaining records and lying while\u00a0working at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-357526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115057074036430964","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357526","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=357526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}