'Dangerous' doctor struck off after failing to quit

A doctor found by a tribunal to be "a danger to the public" can no longer practice medicine.

Dr Jan Mozny was suspended in April 2023 for failing six patients in March 2020, when he was a locum consultant specialising in medical oncology for the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust.

A tribunal ruled he had prescribed chemotherapy with no correspondence, prescribed the wrong course of treatment for another patient, while a third was seen but no paperwork was done and they were not given their CT scan results.

For this misconduct, Mozny had been given a series of suspensions to voluntarily leave the profession but a tribunal on Friday erased him from the Medical Register.

Mozny was first suspended for nine months, then nine months, and then a further year, before now being struck off by a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service ruling.

The repeat suspensions were because Mozny, who qualified in 1976 at Charles University in Prague, had failed to provide evidence of insight into the seriousness of his misconduct or that he had kept his knowledge and skills up to date.

Mozny had said in a letter that he intended to voluntarily erase his name from the General Medical Council's (GMC) register, adding he had no intention to work in medicine again either in the UK or abroad.

The hearing on Friday was told there had been "no progress made in relation to remediation, insight, remorse, regret or any evidence that Dr Mozny had endeavoured to keep his knowledge and skills up to date".

It added he had failed to "engage meaningfully with either the recommendations of the previous tribunals or more generally with his regulator the GMC".

Erasure was ruled as the "necessary and proportionate outcome" to protect the public, uphold professional standards, and maintain confidence in medicine.

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