Legal representatives acting for whistleblower and former clinician Peter Duffy, 61, have sent a pre-action letter to the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT), following a dispute over the authenticity of emails Duffy was alleged to have sent.
Duffy, who worked as a consultant surgeon and head of department at the trust, alleges that two emails, purportedly sent from his UHMBT staff account in December 2014, were “backdated” to appear as if they had been sent by him.
The trust, however, has maintained there is no convincing evidence to support his claims.
Duffy, who lost his job in 2016 after exposing widespread harm at the trust’s urology unit, faced investigation for more than two years over the emails’ contents before the General Medical Council watchdog (GMC) found there was no case to answer in May 2023.
The GMC concluded that, among other factors that prevented it from bringing forward a case against the surgeon, “the deletion of Mr Duffy’s inbox” meant it was not possible to interrogate his email history.
Duffy’s solicitors have now written to UHMBT demanding full disclosure of evidence relating to the two emails in question, which he said has been withheld to date.
The emails concerned the care of the late Peter Read, a 76-year-old man from Morecambe, who died of a stroke brought on by urosepsis in January 2015, following a string of healthcare errors at UHMBT.
Those emails, Duffy said, may have left him open to...
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