Medic lied in bid to work as a consultant

A DOCTOR has been suspended for lying about her qualifications to gain a promotion.

Dr Hoda El-mahrouki, who worked at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, was found to have lied on an application for a specialist certificate, which would have allowed her to work as a consultant.

She lied about past work experience, the dates she had taken assessment, falsely claimed to have withdrawn the fraudulent application and requested that the investigation into her misconduct be dropped.

The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) handed down a three-month suspension to Dr El-mahrouki on Monday, February 24.

The MPTS found Dr El-mahrouki had lied on an application to gain a certificate of eligibility for specialist registration from the General Medical Council (GMC), which would have allowed her to take up a more senior position as a consultant.

In her application, she claimed to have worked as a registrar in rehabilitation medicine and dishonestly claimed to have undertaken assessments on certain dates, in a “deliberate attempt to circumvent the regulatory system for her own benefit”.

Her application to the GMC was flagged as containing wrong information and she then claimed to have withdrawn it – which was also a lie.

Tribunal chair, Janye Wheat, said: “Having heard oral evidence from Dr El-mahrouki and her genuine expressions of remorse at this hearing, the tribunal was in no doubt that she is ashamed of her actions.”