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Simon Bramhall, 53, admitted using a laser to write his initials on the organs
A transplant surgeon who burned his initials onto the livers of two unconscious patients could now have his punishment increased after the General Medical Council complained that a five-month suspension was 'insufficient'.
High Court judge Mrs Justice Collins Rice ordered a fresh Medical Practitioners Tribunal hearing into Simon Bramhall's case after considering a GMC appeal.
The judge, based in London, said a tribunal that considered the case last year did not 'put its finger on precisely what was and was not wrong' with Mr Bramhall's conduct.
Bramhall, who is in his 50s and was a transplant surgeon at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, was given a community order and fined £10,000 by a judge at Birmingham Crown Court in January 2018 after he admitted two counts of assault by beating.
He told police he used an argon beam machine to initial the organs to relieve operating theatre tensions following difficult and long transplant operations in 2013.
Mrs Justice Collins Rice was told that, in December 2020, a Medical Practitioners Tribunal imposed a five-month suspension on Bramhall's
