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Doctor told colleague of blunder over anaesthetic

A LOCUM anaesthetist is facing disciplinary action after he failed to administer an anaesthetic to a woman undergoing a caesarean section.

French medic Dr Jacques Henri Jean Marie Vallet was working as a consultant anaesthetist at St John's Hospital in Livingston when the woman, known only as Patient A, was admitted for an elective caesarean.

He had been contracted from an agency to provide short-term cover for NHS Lothian, but was never directly employed by the health board.