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Leeds hospital doctor faces misconduct charges over prescription
A Leeds hospital doctor faces misconduct charges over allegations he submitted a prescription for his father who wasn't entitled to NHS treatment.
Dr Mohamed Ahmed Adel Hussein Elmasry, who worked as a specialist registrar in trauma and orthopaedics at St James' Hospital, also faces allegations that he failed to pay for the prescription and tried to obtain larger quantities of medication than allowed.
A General Medical Council Fitness to Practice panel is investigating claims that Dr Elmasry submitted prescriptions for a 90-day supply of Ethinylestradiol even though the maximum allowed is 30 days worth.
The drug is a synthetic female hormone commonly used in the contraceptive pill, which is also used in hormone replacement treatment and can be used to treat prostate cancer.
The Manchester hearing, at which Dr Elmasry was present or represented, heard that he told St James's pharmacy technician Christine MacKay on May 23 2006 that the prescription was for his father who did not have
to pay as he was over 60.
However, the doctor faces claims that he knew his father was not a UK resident and therefore not entitled to drugs on the NHS.
Mrs MacKay said: "He said he wanted it for a relative and I said to him that we would be able to give him it but it might be better if he took his relative to a GP, that way he could get more than the 30 prescription allowed for acute needs.
"I told him I could not give him 90 days.
"He told me it was a relative visiting from London, so I thought their GP would be there."
Mrs MacKay got a blank prescription form and Dr Elmasry filled it in. As the pharmacy was running low on that drug, she only gave him 14 days-worth.
She said the doctor did not have to pay as the patient would have been over 60 and she presumed would be entitled to an NHS prescription.
Pharmacy
However, later that day the doctor is alleged to have submitted a further NHS prescription for the same drug to Samantha Burns at a pharmacy on a different wing at the hospital.
Elizabeth Dudley-Jones, counsel for the GMC, said Dr Elmasry went to a pharmacy in Chancellor Wing with a 30-day prescription.
She added: "In terms of financial advantage there is an approximate sum of 200, and although this is relatively low, in the coming evidence you will see that the way in which the doctor obtained this gain was inappropriate and by dishonest actions."
Proceeding.
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