A Glasgow doctor accused of lying and carrying out hair transplants without a licence has been found to be unfit to practise due to his serious misconduct.
Dr Ruiz Alconero was found to have carried out treatments on four patients that fell 'far below' the standard expected while working at KSL Hair Ltd.
The doctor, who qualified in 1998 from Universidad de Alcala Facultad de Medicina, was also travelling back to Spain to practise medicine there at the time of the alleged incidents.
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Alconero was reported to the Medical Practitioners' Tribunal Service (MPTS) over allegations he put patients at risk and did not have adequate insurance, or indemnity cover between August 2016 and January 2017.
Concerns were raised over his conduct by patients who reported him to the General Medical Council. It was then discovered that he had failed to mention that he had been working at KSL and had carried out the surgeries without his GMC registration, or a licence to practise.
Four patients came forward with similar stories regarding their treatment at the hands of Alconero. It was alleged that he failed to offer a face-to-face consultation or cooling-off periods, failed to explain the procedure to patients, and failed to obtain fully informed consent.
On one occasion, the patient's transplanted hair grew 90 degrees from their scalp after the surgery. On another, he allowed a technician to extract hair follicles and implant them without direct supervision.
For one patient, he failed to supervise the implantation of the hair follicles, didn't inform the person of how many follicles were implanted, and made slits in their head while they were standing up.
It was also alleged that he used the room he was using for one patient's surgery to treat another patient in between phases of the surgery and risked cross-contamination of wounds and could have mixed up their grafts.
One patient claimed that he allowed an assistant to perform invasive aspects of the surgery and left the operating theatre while this was happening and didn't assess the patient postoperatively.
The Tribunal found that his behaviour amounted to 'serious misconduct' and that he abused his position of trust and put his own interest above those of his patients. It added that Alconero showed deliberate recklessness or disregard for the potential effect of his actions and behaved dishonestly.
It concluded that Dr Ruiz Alconero’s conduct in working without registration and/or a LTP fell short of the standards reasonably expected of a doctor and amounted to misconduct which was serious.
They added that they had not seen any evidence to suggest Dr Ruiz Alconero had insight into his misconduct, or that he had remediated it and believed that there remained a significant risk of repetition.
It was found that his practise is impaired by reason of his misconduct.
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