GP who faked phone consultations in patients’ notes is suspended for nine months

A locum GP who failed to call eight patients for telephone consultations then wrote in their records that his calls had gone unanswered has been suspended from the UK medical register for nine months.Zeshan Ali has done numerous locum jobs across north west England since 2011, also working as an examiner for Manchester University medical students and for the General Medical Council’s professional and linguistic assessment board examination for doctors from abroad.He missed one patient call on his first day working at a new practice in Eccles. Instead of reporting the lapse and handing off the patient to a colleague, he wrote in the patient’s records that multiple calls to the number had obtained no reply, and that he had been unable to leave a message.In two further sessions over the following month he did the same with seven more patients, before his deception was discovered when a relative of…
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