Godfrey Nkanu Nkanu EMIKU

On 17 February 2024 Dr Emiku attended a home visit during which his driver carried out a breast examination on a female patient. Dr Emiku failed to: - record details regarding who had obtained patient consent and who had carried out that examination; - undertake an examination himself in order to confirm clinical findings; - make the patient aware of the inappropriate examination; - discuss the driver’s actions with him after the consultation; - raise safeguarding concerns in relation to the driver with the organisation for whom they were both working. This conduct does not meet with the standards required of a doctor. It risks bringing the profession into disrepute and it must not be repeated. The required standards are set out in Good medical practice and associated guidance. In this case, paragraphs 7(b), 45, 69, and 75 of Good medical practice is particularly relevant. 7. In providing clinical care you must: b. carry out a physical examination where necessary 45. You must be open and honest with patients if things go wrong. If a patient under your care has suffered harm or distress, you must follow our guidance on Openness and honesty when things go wrong: the professional duty of candour, and you should: a. put matters right, if possible b. apologise (apologising does not, of itself, mean that you are admitting legal liability for what’s happened) c. explain fully and promptly what has happened and the likely short-term and long-term effects d. report the incident in line with your organisation’s policy so it can be reviewed or investigated as appropriate – and lessons can be learnt and patients protected from harm in the future. 69. You must make sure that formal records of your work (including patients’ records) are clear, accurate, contemporaneous and legible.

75. You must act promptly if you think that patient safety or dignity is, or may be, seriously compromised. c. If you have concerns that a colleague may not be fit to practise and may be putting patients at risk, you must ask for advice from a colleague, your defence body, or us. If you are still concerned, you must report this, in line with your workplace policy and our more detailed guidance on Raising and acting on concerns about patient safety. Whilst this failing in itself is not so serious as to require any restriction on Dr Emiku's registration, it is necessary in response to issue this formal warning.