A CHILDREN‘S doctor who formerly worked at a Barrow hospital has avoided being struck off.

The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service has imposed conditions on Dr Saeed Nashoor Ghanim’s registration for 24 months. They also decided to impose an immediate order of conditions to cover a 28-day appeal period. 

This concludes the case into the doctor’s fitness to practice, after the MPTS confirmed 17 allegations against the former Furness General Hospital consultant paediatrician had been proven in May this year. A further 38 allegations were found not to have been proven.

Sitting on Monday, a three-person panel decided that the doctor’s fitness to practise is impaired by reason of misconduct.

A sitting was then held to hear submissions on what sanction, if any, should be imposed on Dr Ghanim's registration. The imposition of 14 conditions now concludes the case.

The proven allegations against the doctor were made public in a 38-page document earlier this year.

They included an incident involving a child in Dr Ghanim’s care whose parents were not adequately updated about her condition.

The panel also concluded that Dr Ghanim did not adequately record a patient’s medical records after she began to have seizures.

He also delayed a patient’s referral to a “tertiary” specialist centre in the first few hours after her birth.