Director of private hospital is cleared of falsely claiming NHS employment

The founder and medical director of a private day hospital was cleared this week by the General Medical Council of falsely claiming on her curriculum vitae to have been employed by five major NHS hospitals.

Jean Monro, medical director of Breakspear Hospital in Hemel Hempstead, was accused by the GMC's fitness to practise panel of writing a “dishonest” CV with intent to mislead. Dr Monro claimed to have been medical director of the “allergy and environmental medicine department” of the Middlesex Hospital, the London Welbeck Hospital, the Lister Hospital, the St John and St Elizabeth Hospital, and the Nightingale Hospital.

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