A HOSPITAL doctor sacked over fears scores of cancer patients had been mistreated has been allowed to work again.

Dr Paul Miller was dismissed from his post as a urologist in 2014 by Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust after an investigation found 27 patients came to "serious significant harm" under his care at East Surrey Hospital in Redhill.

Then 1,200 bladder and prostate cancer patients across both counties were contacted and warned they may have been wrongly treated.

Dr Miller was temporarily banned from seeing patients while the General Medical Council (GMC) investigated his conduct but he is still registered with a licence to practice medicine and his suspension has been lifted, a spokesman confirmed yesterday.

The news comes as an inquest into the deaths of ten of his patients - four of whom lived in Sussex - resumes today.

It has emerged that Dr Miller's suspension was lifted in July last year after a hearing held in private decided he could keep his licence subject to stringent conditions.

The 59-year-old, who lives in Haywards Heath and is a current director of two private health companies, must tell the GMC board if he accepts a job before he takes up any new post.

He must inform his employer about the allegations.

He cannot treat any cancer patients, he must refer any diagnosis he makes to another consultant and keep a record of this as well as several other conditions.

His licence is up for a review by the GMC in November.

The body - which maintains the official register for medical practitioners - said it cannot confirm whether Dr Miller is currently employed or where he works.

The trust's chief executive Michael Wilson yesterday said it reported the deaths to the coroner, police and the GMC after a group of clinical experts identified patients they believed had come to harm.

They were all treated between 2004 and 2013.

He added: "We continue to assist the coroner and the families involved. We are in contact with the families and patients affected and have met with them both individually and as a group."

Dr Miller, who qualified in 1983, previously refused to comment on the allegations citing patient confidentiality but said he was disappointed over the dismissal, which he described as "unjustified".

He could not be contacted by The Argus yesterday.

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DOCTOR Paul Miller was suspended by Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust in December 2013 after a group of health professionals raised concerns about his care. He was then dismissed the following year from his post at East Surrey Hospital in Redhill. A clinical review by the Royal College of Surgeons found 27 patients, many of them elderly, came to harm after treatment they received in his care, the trust said at the time. It invited families to apply for compensation and set up a helpline.