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C-section blunder doctor ordered to retrain

A LOCUM doctor who failed to administer anaesthetic to a patient undergoing a caesarean section has been ordered to retrain and work under supervision for the next 12 months.

French medic Dr Jacques Henri Vallet was found guilty of misconduct by his professional body for a series of blunders he made while working at St John's Hospital in West Lothian.

The GMC panel concluded that Dr Vallet had put Patient A "at unwarranted risk of harm" by failing to administer either local or general anaesthetic before an elective caesarean on November 30, 2009.