Not so much "out of his depth" as "merely dipping his toe into the shallow end"
Another NHS one.

At an NHS trust I worked at a while back, a very senior radiologist (radiographer? I can never remember which one takes the pictures and which one does the analysis) killed someone with a slip of a pen. He meant to write 3/52 and instead wrote 3/12. Meaning that the patient in question had an appointment booked in three months' time instead of three weeks', by which time no amount of radiotherapy could bring them back to life.

So he lost his licence to do his job for a number of years. Five, I think it was.

Given that he was on around £120K, you would have thought the trust would say "we aren't paying you £10K a month if you can't do your job".

But no, they found things for him to do.

He was instrumental in getting the flower beds around the place in a lovely condition. He helped plan office moves. Whenever a new IT system came in, he'd help support the users at go-live (which is how I came into contact with him). He helped to pick colour schemes when places got repainted.

He just did little things around the place to keep himself busy.

For ten grand a month.
(ScousersPet, Thu 6 Sep 2012, 15:46, 13 replies)

Fucking hell
That's my least favourite NHS story ever...

If the papers published lists of the daily waste, ineptitude, laziness and craposity that occurred in the health service, there'd be riots.
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Thu 6 Sep 2012, 15:48, closed)

No mention of the empty heads running NHS
Who don't understand that losing one's licence is intended as punishment, and not as a £10K/month paid holiday.

I'll be here in the corner, quietly sputtering indignantly.
( kila is reading clocks upside-down as usual, Wed 12 Sep 2012, 18:59, closed)

I take it he made lots of other fuck ups for you to have decided he was out of his depth?
Cos stating that on the basis of one mistake seems a bit unfair. The fact that it may have resulted in someone's death still doesn't affect the fact that accidents like this will happen every now and again cos even doctors make mistakes. At least 5% of all prescriptions contain errors.
I'm sure he felt pretty shit about it and on the basis of what you've said it doesn't sound like he deserved to lose his license to practice.
( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Thu 6 Sep 2012, 16:20, closed)

However, it is fair to say that someone on £10K a month
is probably the wrong person to be weeding the flower beds.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 6 Sep 2012, 17:05, closed)

Well, if the flowers died as well
...then maybe it would be time for him to move on to a new career.
(CharminglyShallow incarcerated for a crime he probably did commit., Thu 6 Sep 2012, 17:17, closed)

I'm on half that and I'm awesome at weeding flowerbeds.

( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Thu 6 Sep 2012, 17:17, closed)

[insert innuendo]

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 6 Sep 2012, 19:43, closed)

Several aspects of this story don't ring true
but I'm half cut so I'm just going to call you a fat lesbian. You fat lesbian.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 6 Sep 2012, 19:42, closed)

I'm sure that given the scandalous nature of this serious clinical error, the OP will be able to refer us to a link to a news story about this.

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Fri 7 Sep 2012, 9:35, closed)

It's out there...
... on the local paper's website, at least.

I'm just debating if anything I said could be considered slander... even though all of it, as far as I'm aware, is true.

Turns out it was a six weeks / six months error, not three weeks / months...
(ScousersPet, Fri 7 Sep 2012, 13:02, closed)

Google says 'no'.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sat 8 Sep 2012, 8:23, closed)

That's a pretty maajor clinical error for a consultant to make. I suspect the GMC would have struck him for that.
I'm calling 'bollocks'.
( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Fri 7 Sep 2012, 9:33, closed)

He's still there, it would appear.
menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/health/s/1005035_doctors_tragic_slip_of_the_pen

www.doctoralia.co.uk/consultant/sawyer+richard+hayes-10260711
( Wet-chinned bag shanker Cannot parse Wogan, Tue 11 Sep 2012, 13:36, closed)