ONE child died and more than 200 patients were harmed under the care of a now-suspended NHS surgeon, a report has revealed.
Orthopaedic consultant Kuldeep Stohr worked at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, before an investigation was launched into her work in March 2024 after colleagues raised concerns.
While an initial review found that nine children had received substandard care, the scope of that review was later extended to include nearly a thousand patients.
In an update to its board of directors, mistakenly published on its website, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust revealed that 924 cases (93 per cent) had now been reviewed and 889 patients had been told the results.
It added that 209 patients “experienced harm”, the majority of whom were children when they had elective surgery.
Of these, 47 were classed as “severe harm”, with one being fatal.
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It was previously reported that nine-year-old Jack Moate died in November 2015, within two months of being operated on by Ms Stohr at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge.
Jack, who had many complex medical needs and limited mobility, spent almost eight hours in surgery for the operation on his hips.
The hospital trust said his case had been referred to the coroner.
Nicola Ayton, chief executive at Cambridge University Hospitals, said that a “confidential interim update from the external clinical review was shared by mistake in our public board papers”.
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She said she was “writing to every affected patient and family to apologise and explain what happened”.
The paper did not include any patient-identifiable information or any details about individual cases.
She continued: “We are deeply sorry to the patients and families who came to harm or experienced care below the standards they should expect.
“This should never have happened and we are making changes so that something like this could not happen again.”
The external clinical review, chaired by Andrew Kennedy KC, is “due to be completed later this year”, she said.
“We have promised that once we receive the final report, which will include confirmed levels of patient harm, we will share it with patients and families first before publishing it in full.”
Concerns had been raised as early as 2015 and were the subject of an external clinical review in 2016.
A separate independent review, which reported back last year, highlighted how the 2016 review raised concerns about Ms Stohr’s surgical technique and judgment but it was “misunderstood” and opportunities to act on the findings were “missed”.
Ms Stohr has not worked clinically since March 2024 and was suspended by Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust in February 2025.