HOSPITAL consultants condemned the dismissal of top Burnley gynaecologist Ian Mahady after he was made redundant.

More than 20 top medics at Burnley General wrote an open letter "condemning and deploring" the way in which their colleague was allegedly barred from seeing patients and given just three hours to clear his desk and get out of the hospital.

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