Media captionDr Hadiza Bawa-Garba said she was “sorry for her role” in Jack Adcock’s death
In 2017 the MPTS suspended her from the medical register for a year, but the General Medical Council appealed against government decisions and in January 2018 she was struck off at the High Court.
Dr Bawa-Garba subsequently took her action to the Court of Appeal and in August triumphed her proposal to be reinstated.
She is currently serving a postponement until July but wants to return to work full-time in February.
Giving its decision, the MPTS said the doctor had “reflected appropriately” on the events of Jack’s death and had undertaken significant steps to remediate concerns identified in 2017.
A number of conditions were put in place on Dr Bawa-Garba’s registration, and will be in place for two years from July.
During the hearing, Dr Bawa-Garba said: “I am sorry for my failure to recognise sepsis.
“I apologise for the hurting I have caused the family, the agony will live with me for the rest of my life.”
Sitting in the public gallery, Mrs Adcock interjected: “Eight years too late.”
Speaking after the tribunal, she lent: “I don’t review she should ever be allowed in a hospital again.”
Image copyright PA Image caption Jack’s parents Victor and Nicky Adcock attended the tribunal
A GMC statement said the process had been “difficult” for the Adcock family.
It included: “‘The GMC and Dr Bawa-Garba’s representatives both submitted to the medical practitioner tribunal that her fitness to practise remains impaired due to the length of hour she has been out of practice.
“It is important the doctor’s return to practise is safely managed.”
However, Jenny Vaughan, laws and policies officer for the Doctors’ Association UK, said it was “right” that Dr Bawa-Garba would be allowed to return to work.
She said: “Dr Bawa-Garba is located in scandalizing provisions that day in an NHS hospital…there is a culture of condemn in the NHS at the moment which, if left rampant, will imply patient safety is not what it should be as personnel will be too scared to admit their mistakes.”
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