Patients of a third surgeon who worked at a Spire hospital are recalled over concerns

The private hospital group Spire Healthcare, where the jailed surgeon Ian Paterson performed many of his operations, has recalled patients of a third surgeon over concerns that he may have carried out unnecessary or inadequate procedures. The decision to recall patients of orthopaedic surgeon Michael Walsh follows the revelation last month that Spire was reviewing the care of 217 patients who had shoulder operations performed by another orthopaedic surgeon, Habib Rahman.1 Walsh’s patients, of whom Spire said “fewer than 50” had been recalled, underwent shoulder procedures at a Spire hospital in Leeds. Walsh also operated at a Leeds hospital run by another private company, Nuffield Health. Paterson and Rahman operated at Spire hospitals in the West Midlands. Spire suspended Walsh in …