Two GPs stripped of their specialist status lose legal fight with Medical Board of Australia
The board admitted both doctors had a 'good reputation' within the profession.
Two GPs who were mistakenly granted specialist registration because of a paperwork blunder have lost their legal fight with the Medical Board of Australia.
Dr Kathryn Hutt and Dr Scott Porter were among a group of doctors asked to prove they were qualified GPs after the board discovered they had been mistakenly granted specialist status when AHPRA was set up in 2010.
At the time, only doctors who had either an RACGP or ACRRM fellowship or who, under a ‘grandfathering arrangement’, had been on the VR between 1989 and 1995, should have been listed as specialist GPs.
Dr Hutt and Dr Porter did not meet the requirements.
