The Medical Association wants a conclusion to the parliamentary inquiry into Northland surgeon Graham Parry.
The inquiry has been suspended because of the election and there is no guarantee it will be resumed by the next Parliament.
The health select committee launched the inquiry in November after numerous complaints about Dr Parry's care of patients were made by Northland women to health authorities.
He failed to diagnose Bay of Islands mother-of-three Colleen Poutsma, who died of cervical cancer last April.
Dr Parry was fined $15,000, ordered to pay costs of nearly $60,000 and struck off the medical register for his treatment of Mrs Poutsma.
The Medical Practitioners' Disciplinary Tribunal found him guilty of disgraceful conduct.
Today, Medical Association chairman John Adams said the committee had started the inquiry and should finish it.
"We don't know whether the committee has served a useful purpose. All we are left with is that this committee held their hearings in a climate of opposition when there were already disciplinary and court proceedings underway," Dr Adams said on National Radio.
"So far I think the committee has probably been unhelpful rather than helpful. If a report is not forthcoming, then I think this committee will have been a waste of time."
National Radio said it had obtained a draft report prepared by the committee which indicated there was no evidence that Dr Parry's error rate was unacceptably high.
Earlier this month Dr Parry's lawyer, Harry Waalkens, said he was outraged the inquiry might not be completed.
"It's a complete abuse of process and I'm very disappointed...to be delayed this long and then have no outcome is a total abuse of his rights."
Parliament was dissolved on Tuesday and self-initiated select committee inquiries are not automatically carried over to the next Parliament.
Committee chair Judy Keall has now retired from Parliament, so has one of its members, Phillida Bunkle.
Mrs Keall told NZPA on June 18 she was sorry the election had intervened because the committee had been close to signing off a final report.
"We certainly did our best but in the end a select committee has to give priority to government business," she said.
National MP Lynda Scott, a member of the committee which no longer exists, said today if she was re-elected she would push for the inquiry to be completed by the new committee which will be appointed by the next Parliament.
- NZPA
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