The inquiry is examining the professional practice of disgraced neurosurgeon Sam Eljamel within NHS Tayside.

NHS Tayside has been warned not to blame individuals for the destruction of log books relating to disgraced neurosurgeon Sam Eljamel despite a “do not destroy order” issued months earlier, an inquiry has heard.

The Eljamel Inquiry set up to investigate the surgeon’s professional practice was announced by the Scottish Government in September 2023.

Mr Eljamel, originally from Libya, was head of neurosurgery at Dundee’s Ninewells Hospital from 1995 until his suspension in December 2013.

Following his suspension, the surgeon resigned from his post in May 2014 and removed himself from the General Medical Register in 2015, and to date 138 former patients who claim they were harmed by

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