This - maybe no proof but the lying and lack of awareness of changing patient records being potentially very very dangerous. As a patient - You don’t phone and make an appointment even a phone one without good reason. In my surgery you don’t get even a phone appointment unless it is urgent never mind face to face. Phoning at 8am puts you as caller number 80 in the queue and they phone you back and they may or may not have a phone appointment. These appointments are needed, are in demand and you don’t have enough for patients.
You never ever ever falsify records. I’m sick and tired of doctors (I know the profession well) being caught doing the wrong thing and being dangerous and then excuses made about the job is too stressful, childcare etc / some do the job as single parents with no support and the same stress but we didn’t lie and cover up. We also have to get to childcare we work it even with no family or ex husband support. Even with child illness. I covered it all.
Different case- I do know of a fraud involving a similar professional a few years ago now. The auditors estimated they had stolen hundreds of thousand of pounds over 10 years plus / they only went to court with proof of about £7000, it was two of them (same place working together) they were ordering equipment which got signed off and the other signed for delivery and sold equipment on - both of them in same place working together and splitting it. We believed when they drove around in top of the range Mercedes and designer handbags and went on safari and exotic holidays and upgraded their houses etc that they must have family help we never once suspected them don’t forget this money was spent over a decade. Nice new house with a pool - wow I said. Yes she said…. we have been saving for ages and then made some money on house we were renting out - I just thought they were hardworking and got lucky with spouses etc I never thought for a minute they were stealing from the same place that I worked . These too were ‘nice decent people’ - one got a suspended sentence , one got a short jail term. Both out and walking around locally proudly within 12-18 months. Both of them blamed cancer of parents and stress at work and their previous good character was accepted at the hearing etc and their children used etc as reasons for a non custodial and short sentence. One even took work to court for being dismissed and wanted compensation in wages etc despite being paid for 12 months whilst investigating was ongoing during a suspension. I was silently screaming in my head: what about my stress, what about my life, single parent working every hour I could and although it a good job huge outgoings etc I didn’t steal. Me working short of resources (at work) and being told ‘not enough in the budget etc’ by the local community they largely were ‘forgiven’ although sacked but I knew more than went to court and literally the £20 k theft they could prove - was actually x10 times that but they could paper trail it back.
In this case the whole narrative it is wrong. She committed fraud and covered up. She was paid for a job she didn’t do and had no intention of doing. Wouldn’t we all like to leave work by 4.45 to ensure we get to pick our kids up. If the job finishes at 5 pm you stay to 5 pm and if an emergency comes in - you have to phone the school or your friend or whatever. We ALL do this because not all of us have family or partners that can help.
My friend who has younger children than me, she is a nurse, he is a uni lecturer they employ someone to pick the kids up every single day bring them back and look after them at home. Sort of childminder. She finishes at 5 pm and after school club is 5.30pm and both of them at 30 minutes from school and they can not guarantee there won’t be traffic etc or appointments that overrun so they pay daily to ensure this and they are not well off.
I do hope this GP learns and her skills are utilised but I wouldn’t want her to be my GP.
Right off to relax and chill out in 2026.