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Peter McAllister
- Practitioner name
- Peter McAllister
- Name as recorded
- Dr Peter McAllister
- Profession
- Doctor
- Decision date
- 2021-01-21
- Offence category
- Death of patient (professional misconduct)
- Offence
- HE KILLED A HEALTHY PATIENT. And AHPRA described it as “A GP anesthetist has been reprimanded for a serious lapse in professional standards that amounted to professional misconduct”.
- Outcome
- Received a “reprimand” and a bit of time out.. AHPRA state “The tragic and preventable death of a healthy young woman, of itself, should be more than sufficient deterrence to any practitioner”.
- Outcome type
- Reprimand
- Outcome length
- Not recorded
- Category
- Non-sex offence (main table – comparison)
- Tribunal
- Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal
- Case name
- Medical Board of Australia v McAllister (Review and Regulation) [2021] VCAT 42
- Citation
- [2021] VCAT 42
- Tribunal decision date
- 2021-01-22
- State
- VIC
- Tribunal city
- Melbourne
- National board
- Medical Board of Australia
- Registration status
- Registered; reprimanded
- Official outcome (tribunal/board)
- Reprimand
- Source confidence
- exact match
- Notes
- Heard via Zoom
Decision-makers
- W Boddison · Member (presiding) · Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal
- Dr R Mason · Member · Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal
- Dr P McNeill · Member · Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal
Sources
https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/vic/VCAT/2021/42.html
- https://www.medicalboard.gov.au/News/2021-06-04-GP-anaesthetist-reprimanded.aspx
- findings [2020] VCAT 174