{"id":461786,"date":"2025-09-30T00:54:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/461786\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T00:54:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:54:20","slug":"dr-michael-watt-i-raised-my-concerns-with-belfast-trust-senior-medic-tells-inquest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/461786\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Michael Watt: I raised my concerns with Belfast Trust, senior medic tells inquest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">First hearing into the death of one of disgraced consultant\u2019s patients (72) gets under way\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dr Michael Watt (Photo: Alan Lewis)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/822fbbd8-cb98-45ea-b3aa-de1a95d0e9a7.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Dr Michael Watt (Photo: Alan Lewis)<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The first in a series of inquests into the deaths of Dr Michael Watt\u2019s patients has been told while the consultant neurologist was highly regarded by the medical profession, and believed he was a specialist in movement disorders, \u201che was not\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Dr John McKinley was giving evidence at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/news\/courts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Banbridge Court<\/a> during the inquest into the death of Barbara Perkins (72) from Ballymena on July 15, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First hearing into the death of one of disgraced consultant\u2019s patients (72) gets under way Dr Michael Watt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[105,17037,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-461786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-trusts","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115290522566718671","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461786","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=461786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}