Doctor brother of top Tory faces sanctions

A General Medical Council (GMC) panel found that Dr Adam Osborne, 33, was at fault over falsifying the name of a cocaine-addicted friend, referred to in the hearing as Miss B, on a prescription he handed to staff at Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester.

He later obtained the desired anti-psychotic drugs at a private pharmacy using an incomplete form. But members of the panel said charges of misleading and dishonest behaviour in relation to the second prescription were not proven.

Dr Osborne could be struck off the medical register when the GMC panel sanctions the psychiatrist later this week.

The panel will hear from another witness before deciding if Dr

Osborne's fitness to practise is impaired owing to misconduct.

Dr Osborne has already admitted prescribing the contraceptive pill for his then-girlfriend and anti-smoking drug Zyban to a family member.

In all three cases, he failed to record the prescriptions in the

personal medical records of the individuals.

Neither did he tell their GPs.

The incidents occurred while Dr Osborne, the younger brother of the Tory MP, was a psychiatry trainee at Wythenshawe Hospital.

Last week, he told the panel that in the case of Miss B, he made the prescriptions owing to what he said was "an acute emergency" relating to her condition.

But he denied he was trying to hide the identity of the friend or conceal her presence at the hospital.