A NEW England doctor has been disqualified from seeking re-registration after he was found guilty of professional misconduct.
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In a judgement handed down on Thursday by the Civil and Administrative Tribunal, a panel of four members disqualified Dr Qing Shan ‘John’ Liu from seeking registration as a medical practitioner for 12 months.
The Health Care Complaints Commission took action against Dr Liu after several complaints while he worked near Glen Innes up until 2014.
Dr Liu was employed at the Vegetable Creek Multipurpose Service (VCMS) at Emmaville and also worked as a general practitioner in Ashford until he was suspended by Hunter New England Health in May, 2014.
The health service suspended his visiting medical officer rights following complaints by patients and staff.
In September, last year, Dr Liu failed to renew his registration.
The court found that if Dr Liu was still registered as a medical practitioner the Tribunal would have cancelled his registration, after he was found guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct and professional misconduct.
The complaints against Dr Liu centred on his treatment of five patients and “was significantly below the standard reasonably expected of a practitioner”.
The Tribunal found his treatment of a woman who suffered a serious burn to her hand “was grossly deficient”, and that Dr Liu failed to follow up and refer a 10-year-old child, who suffered a serious injury after falling from a quad bike, for specialist treatment.
“His treatment of the child was significantly below the standard of a practitioner of similar expertise and expertise,” the Tribunal said in its written judgement.
The complaints against Dr Liu also included that he engaged in improper or unethical conduct by speaking in an unprofessional manner to staff at the small hospital, discussed details about a patient’s death in front of others, and made claims to Medicare which he wasn’t not entitled to.
Dr Liu moved to Emmaville in 2009, and worked three days a week in general practice, and provided services at Ashford Community Health Care two days a week.
He was also on call for the hospital twenty-four hours per day, seven days each week.
Dr Liu has been ordered to pay 80 per cent of the costs incurred by the Health Care Complaint’s case.