Surgeon must pay £170k tribunal costs to NHS

A plastic surgeon who claimed he was suspended for blowing the whistle on colleagues whom he accused of being too focused on “highly lucrative” private work and playing golf, faces a bill for £170,000.

Jonathan Brooks was suspended on full pay from his £106,000 a year job at the City Hospital in Nottingham in 2015 and stepped down in Jan 2016.

Mr Brooks’ appeal for£500,000 compensation was rejected and an employment tribunal has now ruled that he must pay the entire costs incurred by the Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust in defending the case.