RE THE MEDICAL PRACTICE ACT 1992 AND DR ROBERT L. ANDERSON [2003] NSWMT 1

New South Wales Medical Tribunal

CITATION : RE THE MEDICAL PRACTICE ACT 1992 AND DR ROBERT L. ANDERSON [2003] NSWMT 1 TRIBUNAL : Medical Tribunal PARTIES : DR ROBERT L ANDERSON FILE NUMBER(S) : 40015 of 2002 CORAM: Sidis DCJ - Klineberg, Assoc Prof P - Grimes, Dr D - Gleeson, Dr M CATCHWORDS: LEGISLATION CITED: THE MEDICAL PRACTICE ACT 1992 CASES CITED: DATES OF HEARING: DATE OF JUDGMENT: 4 June 2003

JUDGMENT: Medical Tribunal of NSW District Court No 40015/2002 4 June 2003 Page 10 of 10 DETERMINATION

NATURE OF COMPLAINT

Pursuant to the Medical Practice Act 1992 (the Act), the Tribunal is enquiring into a Complaint (Exhibit A) dated 27 June 2002, of the Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC), concerning the professional conduct of Dr Robert Leonard Anderson (the practitioner).

The Complaint alleges that the practitioner, being a medical practitioner registered under the Act, has been guilty of professional misconduct or unsatisfactory professional conduct within the meaning of ss 36 and 37 of the Act in that he has:

(i) demonstrated a lack of adequate knowledge, skill, judgment or care in the practice of medicine; (ii) contravened conditions to which his registration is subject; and (iii) engaged in improper or unethical conduct relating to the practice of medicine.

Particulars set out in the Complaint are as follows:

Particulars of Complaint One

1. The practitioner failed to report to the New South Wales Medical Board at yearly intervals the outline of the programme undertaken and the continuing education programmes completed, by September 1999, in contravention of Condition 7 of conditions of his registration imposed by a Professional Standards Committee on 16 August 1998.