WSS v Medical Board of Australia

WSS is a medical practitioner who has worked in various hospitals in Australia. He is appealing to the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT) a decision of the Medical Board of Australia (the Board) to impose conditions on his registration. He claims that the Board has not considered the evidence properly, and that the decision should be overturned. The Board submits that it is appropriate to impose conditions on his registration. The Tribunal has all of the functions of the Board in conducting the review. In reviewing the Board's decision the Tribunal must decide whether the practitioner's professional conduct, or the way he practices his profession, is or may be unsatisfactory, and if so, whether the practitioner has an impairment, and if so, what conditions, if any, should be imposed on his registration. The Tribunal found that the way the applicant practised his profession, or his professional conduct, was unsatisfactory in eight respects. The Tribunal found that the applicant has an impairment. The Tribunal found that the applicant has a mental condition which affects, or is likely to affect, detrimentally his capacity to practice his profession. The Tribunal's findings are based on a review of the applicant's history of problems in working in various hospitals, his treatment of two patients, Patient A and Patient B, and on expert opinion. The Tribunal will invite submissions about what conditions, if any, should be imposed on the registration of the applicant, in the light of those findings.