| | Skidmore v Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust [2003] UKHL 27 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Accordingly allegations that a hospital doctor had deliberately misled a patient, her general practitioner and the hospital authorities over details of an operation he performed raised matters to be treated as professional, not personal, conduct and should have been investigated under the disciplinary procedures appropriate to that category of conduct. |
 | | The House of Lords so held when dismissing an appeal by Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust from the Court of Appeal [2002] ICR 403 which had allowed an appeal by the doctor, Mr Frederic David Skidmore, from the Employment Appeal Tribunal. |
 | | The Appeal Tribunal had upheld the decision of an employment tribunal that the trust had correctly categorised the allegations as raising matters of personal, not professional, conduct, and had adopted the internal disciplinary procedure appropriate to that category. |
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