Osborne’s psychiatrist brother admits he had sex with patient
THE psychiatrist brother of George Osborne has admitted having sex with a vulnerable patient who had been under his care, a disciplinary panel heard.
Dr Adam Osborne, who is currently suspended by the General Medical Council (GMC), admitted that he had engaged in an “inappropriate” emotional and sexual relationship with the woman, despite being her private psychiatrist .
The woman, referred to as Patient A, had been under Dr Osborne’s care from 2011 until late 2014. She had a history of mental illness.
It is not the first time the younger brother of the Chancellor has been in the spotlight for medical failings. In 2010 he was suspended from practising medicine for six months after writing fraudulent prescriptions for a girlfriend, a family member and an escort girl while a psychiatry trainee at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester.
At that time the GMC found that Dr Osborne, who is five years younger than the Chancellor, had “behaved dishonestly” after attempting to obtain anti-psy- chotic medication for a cocaine-addicted woman he had been seeing while his partner was away.
Dr Osborne did not attend the latest Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service hearing in Manchester. However, he admits that he knew, or ought reasonably to have known, that the woman was vulnerable because of her history of mental ill health.
He also admits that he sent inappropriate emails to Patient A which referred to requests that she withdraw her complaint to the GMC against him, made threats towards her, citing the consequences for her family if she did not withdraw her complaint, and an accusation that she had seduced him.
The hearing is due to last 10 days.