Trainee GP who falsified timesheet is suspended for four months after GMC intervened

A trainee GP who falsified a timesheet after providing weekend senior house officer cover at a hospital has been suspended from the UK medical register for four months after a successful appeal by the General Medical Council.

Despite finding that his actions were dishonest, a medical practitioners tribunal decided in January 2017 that Iheanyi Nwachuku’s fitness to practise was not impaired and let him off with a warning.

But the GMC appealed and in August 2017 a …