Botched boob job plastic surgeon struck off for illicit Covid ops

A plastic surgeon who was suspended twice in seven years following complaints about his remedy of sufferers has lastly been struck off after he was caught finishing up illicit beauty surgical procedure in the course of the Covid lockdown.

Dr Ashish ‘Ash’ Dutta was discovered responsible of great skilled misconduct after he  carried out three non-public operations for money, regardless of assuring regulators no such procedures could be carried out in the course of the pandemic to keep away from spreading the virus.

The operations included the elimination of a cyst from one particular person, two lesions from one other and a mole from a 3rd between June 23 and July 15, 2020. Dutta admitted finishing up the procedures however claimed he didn’t consider they had been ‘surgical’.  

Dutta, 60 – as soon as famed for providing ‘lunchtime lipo suctions’ – had beforehand been suspended for 12 months in 2012 over a botched boob job on a businesswoman, which left her needing 4 operations to repair the harm.

And in 2019 he was suspended once more for 9 months over claims he supplied a £600 low cost to a affected person in a bid to ‘pressurise’ her into present process breast augmentation surgical procedure the next week – however he was cleared on enchantment.

Dr Ashish ‘Ash’ Dutta was discovered responsible of great skilled misconduct after he carried out three illicit non-public operations in the course of the Covid lockdown

Dutta, 60 – who as soon as turned famed for providing ‘lunchtime lipo suctions’ – had beforehand been suspended for 12 months in 2012 over a botched boob job

The newest illicit procedures had been found throughout a separate investigation into different beauty procedures carried out by Dutta earlier than the pandemic which left sufferers struggling medical episodes – because it emerged he had additionally carried out work regardless of regulatory restrictions on his practise. 

A Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service was instructed he had additionally lied in regards to the situation of 1 affected person who was left needing CPR after struggling a cardiac arrest on the working desk. 

Dutta, who runs his Aesthetic Beauty Centre clinics from Sunderland and Newcastle-upon-Tyne together with his spouse Wendy, has been ordered to have his identify erased from the medical register after being discovered responsible of great skilled misconduct.

Inquiries by the Care Quality Commission discovered he was working exterior the phrases of a Dormancy Notice banning him for finishing up procedures and lied about finishing up ‘Brazilian butt lifts’ whereas topic to different circumstances on his practise.

MPTS chairman Mr Gerry Wareham instructed the Manchester listening to: ‘Dr Dutta seems to have a deep seated attitudinal downside and has demonstrated a repeated willingness to step exterior regulation. On repeated events he has demonstrated a bent to hunt to discover a approach round restrictions relatively than adhering to them.

‘His misconduct put his personal pursuits forward of the pursuits of sufferers and the broader public and he thereby put sufferers susceptible to hurt. He has demonstrated a persistent disregard for regulation and restrictions which had been imposed to advertise affected person security and the intent of his actions was to keep away from complying with rules and subsequently undermine safeguards. ‘

He added: ‘Dr Dutta purposefully gave deceptive info in an try to bypass the frameworks put in place for affected person security. Based on the proof acquired, the Tribunal might solely conclude it was carried out for private pursuits and monetary acquire. If permitted to practise, he would current a threat to affected person security.’

Dr Dutta certified in Calcutta in 1988 and, after transferring to the UK, he labored in hospitals for 10 years in quite a lot of specialisms earlier than turning into a full-time GP in 1996. He opened two non-public beauty surgical procedure clinics in Sunderland and Newcastle in 2000 and 2004.

In 2019 Dutta was suspended once more for 9 months over claims he supplied a £600 low cost to a affected person in a bid to ‘pressurise’ her into present process breast augmentation surgical procedure 

The investigation started in 2019 after Dutta himself contacted the General Medical Council and tried to minimise the situation of a affected person who developed coronary heart issues whist present process surgical procedure.

During the decision he claimed the affected person’s coronary heart price had ‘slowed down’ and didn’t cease – however NHS employees who subsequently handled him mentioned the incident was ‘an especially severe hostile occasion of a minor process’.

The CQC had been alerted and later carried out an inspection on the ABC Newcastle clinic in 2020 – however Dutta lied to investigators claiming the affected person didn’t have a cardiac arrest at ABC.

He additionally lied about enterprise different procedures regardless of written assurances in March of that 12 months that no face-to-face consultations or surgical procedures could be carried out on the ABC clinics in Newcastle and Sunderland resulting from Covid.

Inquiries revealed on June 23 2020 Dutta carried out the elimination of a cyst on Patient D then on June 30 2020 eliminated two lesions from Patient E and on July 15 eliminated a mole from Patient F. The illicit procedures additionally put him in breach of interim GMC circumstances imposed the earlier May which positioned restrictions on his work while unsupervised.

Dutta admitted finishing up the procedures however claimed he didn’t admire the remedy was ‘surgical’.

His lawyer Mr Andrew Colman produced a latest affected person satisfaction survey during which Dutta was described in ‘glowing phrases.’ He mentioned in the course of the pandemic his shopper had instantly ‘put himself on the entrance line of the response,’ handled Covid optimistic sufferers and carried out home calls in full PPE at ‘appreciable threat to his personal well being’.

He added: ‘The CQC has been in a protracted confrontation with Dr Dutta, to the extent it had made unwarranted claims that he was not certified as a beauty surgeon or as any type of surgeon in any respect. This was a ridiculous allegation from the CQC contemplating Dr Dutta’s roles as a coach, a world examiner in beauty surgical procedure and his coaching and growth file.

‘Against this background Dr Dutta is at a loss to grasp how he’s now going through erasure and the termination of his lengthy and valued profession.’