- Physician’s former firm didn’t report severe incidents
- He’s a discredited psychiatrist
- Now has high job as psychological well being scientific director
EXCLUSIVE
A British physician who locked a affected person inside their hospital room for a number of weeks and was banned from operating an organization within the UK has landed a high job in northern NSW.
Dr Richard Seamark’s ‘appalling’ historical past was made public in 2017 after he was a frontrunner for a $400,000 senior place as Medical Director of Psychological Well being at Cairns Hospital in Far North Queensland.
Nonetheless, the discredited psychiatrist, 64, was swiftly dumped from the recruitment course of when it emerged that he was banned as an organization director within the UK.
The ban adopted his UK firm Care+ Ltd failing to report severe incidents and used expired medical gear.
A number of complaints had been made in regards to the high quality of care offered whereas he ran the agency, together with medication errors and locking one affected person of their room for a number of weeks.
He was branded a ‘dodgy psychiatrist by the UK authorities’s Insolvency Service after he was banned for jeopardising affected person security and described his behaviour as ‘appalling’.
Robert Clarke, Head of Bancrupt Investigations North, added on the time: ‘The failure by Dr Seamark to adequately safeguard sufferers’ wellbeing and security introduced a big danger to weak sufferers, workers and the general public.
‘His disqualification sends a transparent message that such appalling behaviour won’t be tolerated within the context of the broader company regime.’
Regardless of the damning report, Seamark has now secured a place because the Medical Director of the Richmond Clarence Psychological Well being Service in Lismore.
Dr Richard Seamark was appointed the scientific director of the Richmond Clarence Psychological Well being Service in Lismore
His place is a part of Northern NSW native well being district in Lismore
In a video posted by Northern NSW Native Well being District 12 months in the past, he sang the praises of his new hometown and the group at his new office.
‘It is a good looking place to work,’ he mentioned.
‘Simply bodily, the climate is extraordinary and affords you an enormous vary of various alternatives lifestyle-wise.
‘Inside the scope of labor we simply have a extremely nice bunch of individuals to work with and you may take pleasure in simply the each day expertise.’
In its report on his defunct firm, the federal government company revealed one affected person had been locked inside their hospital room for a number of weeks. It described the incident as a ‘breach of the affected person’s human rights’.
The hospital additionally didn’t report severe incidents resembling medication errors, and stored defibrillator pads that had expired over seven years earlier.
The damning investigation discovered one of many hospitals was ‘insufficient in each space inspected’ and printed a scathing overview of Dr Seamark’s management.
Seamark was rejected from the place at Cairns Hospital in 2017 after recruiters had been instructed particulars of his UK firm’s insolvency.
‘Insolvency proceedings hadn’t come to fruition,’ Well being Minister Steven Miles – now Queensland Premier – mentioned on the time.
‘Once they did, he disclosed that and that is the purpose at which the method was suspended. Let’s not get too caught up in what’s occurred.’
It’s understood Seamark moved to Queensland in 2015 after he was disqualified from being director of his UK firm which then went into voluntary liquidation.
Previous to making use of for the position in in Cairns, he had been practising at Sunshine Coast Hospital for 18 months regardless of an 18 month UK ban for ‘jeopardising affected person security’
NSW Well being insisted that they had adopted normal follow when recruiting Seamark for his newest position in Lismore.
‘Recruitment to vacant positions inside Northern NSW Native Well being District is undertaken in accordance with NSW Well being insurance policies,’ mentioned a spokesman.
‘This contains mandated pre-employment screening and, for scientific roles, affirmation of registration with the related company or medical board.’
