Mr Matthew Lane

As a registered Biomedical Scientist (BS39266) your fitness to practise is impaired by reason of misconduct and/or lack of competence. In that:

1. You did not respond appropriately to reasonable management requests, in that:

a) In or around September and October 2018 you failed to engage with management requests to arrange an appraisal and/or refused to undertake an appraisal as required by your employer.

b) Between December 2017 and 16 November 2018 you did not complete the competency assessment (Urinary Drug screening / Opiate / Amphetamine) as requested.

c) In or around September 2018 you did not log the Internal Quality Control results for the 2 extra analytes before running forensic urinary samples.

2. You made inappropriate comments and/or behaved inappropriately, in that:

a) On 22 February 2019 you incorrectly stated that Person A hada history of gross misconduct.

b) On 17 April 2018 you behaved in an aggressive and/or intimidating manner towards with Person B during a meeting.

3. You demonstrated inappropriate and/or unprofessional behaviour, in that:

a) On or around 13 November 2015 you sent an email which was of a threatening and/or unprofessional nature to Person C.

b) On or around 10 March 2016 you acted in an aggressive manner by throwing papers and/or throwing a computer mouse into a computer screen.

c) On or around 3 February 2019 and/or 22 February 20197 you sen emails to Person D which were unprofessional and/or discourteous.

d) On or around 8 October 2018 you sent a letter to Person B which was unprofessional and/or discourteous.

4. In respect of Person E you:

a) Called her a “lesbian” in or around November 2011; and/or

b) Gave her a lab coat with “lesbian” embroidered on it.

5. You were responsible for a number of incidents including as follows:

a) On or around 19/04/2011 you did not put an ‘unsep’ comment on th sample and ask for a repeat sample.

b) On or around 28/07/2011 you did not follow the correct telephone policy in that you did not take a name when reporting urgent results.

c) On or around 28/07/2011 you did not phone through a result as per th phone policy.

d) On or around 15/09/2011 you did not reject a sample despite identifying that the sample and request form contained different patient details.

e) On or around 02/04/2012 you incorrectly reported a urine crystine result.

f) On or around 07/04/2012 you did not correctly follow the QC policy as the ICQ for potassium was out of range and you did not take action to correct this.

g) On or around 08/05/2012 you:

i. reported an incorrectly interpretedation of a Xanthochromia sample result; and/or

ii. did not follow the SOP for reporting Xanthochronmia results

h) On or around 19/09/2012 you incorrectly reported a negative reading for two drug users on Methadone.

i) On or around 11/10/2012 you froze a sample without decanting takin the plasma from the cells, off making it unusable.

j) On or around 01/2013 you downloaded a wrong lot of Indirect Selective Electrodes low on the F1 analyser.

k) On or around 18/09/2015 you transmitted a sample to INET without identifying a low internal standard area and taking action in respect of this.

l) On In or around 17/08/ May 2016 you incorrectly communicated results to a GP for the wrong patient.

m)In or around May and/or September 2018 you analysed samples using incorrect positions on Quattro.

n) On or around 06/2018 you:

(i) started up a system without checking that the ballast on the oil pump was closed causing hot oil to be spilled; and/or

(ii) did not report until the end of the day that there was a problem with quality control and that no results had been released that day.

o) On or around 22/06/2018 you selected the incorrect patient when reporting results.

p) On or around 10/07/2018 you set up an MMA assay with a 1000 st when this only had a top std of 500.

q) On or around 410/07/2018 you booked a sample for a carbamazepine test when this should have been booked for phenobarbitone analysis.

r) On or around 2227/11/2018 you stored a sample in a reagent fridge instead of a sample fridge which was incorrect.

s) In or around 2018 you registered a patient on Winpath with the incorrect date of birth.

t) On or around 28/03/2012 you booked a request under the wrong patient name.

u) On or around 16/03/2016, you did not identify a sample required dilution and instead phoned the ward to inform them of the result.

v) On or around 12/04/2018 you technically validated a result which still required further dilution.

w) On or around 19/04/2018, you did not appropriately store a sample in that you stored it with the clinical rather than forensic samples.

x) On or around 21/02/2013, you did not appropriately store a sample in that you left it in the sluice room overnight.

6. The matters described in particulars 1-4 constitute misconduct.

7. The matters as described in particular 5 constitute lack of competenc and/or misconduct.

8. By reason of your misconduct and/or lack of competence your fitness to practise is impaired.