Dr Anton van Dellen, Martin Khoshdel & Sara Wyeth report on another unfair bone in the ossuary
In Sagar v Health Education England [2014] EWHC 3696 (Admin), [2014] All ER (D) 184 (Nov), Dr Alan Sagar was a conscientious doctor who had the misfortune to be falsely accused by a mischievous patient shortly after beginning his training as a General Practitioner (GP). After a year had passed, he was fully exonerated, but the episode triggered a bout of ill-health which significantly affected his GP training. His ill-health was eventually diagnosed and effectively treated, but only after he was removed from his GP training programme by Health Education England (HEE) shortly before he would have fully qualified as a GP.
Dr Sagar mounted a judicial review of HEE’s decision to release him from GP training on two main grounds:
- A preliminary step (Step 1) had not been undertaken prior to his final appeal hearing (Step 2).
- Dr Sagar had been handed a 420 page bundle of evidence 10 minutes before his Step 2 hearing, which Dr Sagar attended with his treating
