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He said a locum neurologist referred him to a specialist clinic in another south of Scotland health board, but he was rejected because he didn't live in the right area.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

He claimed he had been made a "scapegoat" after a "witch hunt" following the operation, carried out at the Royal Oldham Hospital, where he was working as a locum on 25 August 2020.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

Kuppuswamy was also "reluctant to accept that there was a power differential between himself and Dr A as he was only a locum consultant".

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

In the same year, he walked out of a five-day locum cardiologist placement at University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire without notice or good reason, the tribunal found.

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2026

The locum tenens enjoyed the benefice,74 with a reserve of one-third for the wife to bring up the children of the absent official.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns




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