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James Taylor

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Practitioner name: James Taylor
Name as recorded: James Taylor
Profession: Medical practitioner (psychiatrist)
Decision date: 2010-06-11
Offence category: Sexual relationship with psychiatric patient
Offence: A psychiatrist, he entered into a personal and sexual relationship with a female patient and kept prescribing medication for her while in the relationship. He admitted the relationship. No criminal charges. Professional misconduct (sexual relationship with a patient; prescribing for her during the relationship).
Outcome: Suspended for three years. He had already stopped his registration in 2009 and was working as an executive coach. The NSW Medical Tribunal (HCCC prosecution) found the HCCC's further allegation, that he failed to refer her to another psychiatrist after the relationship began and changed her medication, not proven, and ordered a fixed suspension rather than deregistration.
Outcome type: Suspended
Outcome length: 3 years
Category: Not recorded
Tribunal: NSW Medical Tribunal
Case name: Dr James Taylor – suspended for three years by NSW Medical Tribunal
Citation: Not recorded
Tribunal decision date: 2010-06-11
State: NSW
Tribunal city: Not recorded
National board: NSW Medical Board (pre-National Law)
Registration status: Not recorded
Official outcome (tribunal/board): Not recorded
Source confidence: Not recorded
Notes: Permanently barred: No

Decision-makers

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