A doctor who falsified a prescription for a cocaine-addicted escort
girl has been found guilty of serious misconduct by the General
Medical Council (GMC).
Adam Osborne, 33, brother of shadow chancellor George Osborne,
admitted “inappropriate” behaviour.
He also obtained the contraceptive pill for his girlfriend and an
anti-smoking drug for a family member while training at Wythenshawe
Hospital, Manchester.
The GMC will decide whether Dr Osborne will be struck off.
The failings constitute misconduct that impairs his fitness to
practise, the panel ruled.
Reading out the verdict, chair of the panel Alyson Leslie said Dr
Osborne told them that he wrote the prescriptions while he was under
“considerable pressure in his professional and public life”.
Mrs Leslie said that he engaged in a relationship with “Miss B, who
you described as an escort girl” during a time when his long-term
partner was working away.
Mrs Leslie said that aspects of the misconduct are “remediable.”
It was also noted that many of the charges against Dr Osborne came up
as a result of his own admissions.
The misconduct ruling relates to incidents between June 2006 and May
2008.
On 12 May 2008, Miss B met Dr Osborne in the hospital car park after
she earlier discharged herself from another hospital and was
suffering from hallucinations as the result of heavy cocaine use.
Dr Osborne wrote out a prescription for anti-psychotic drugs
haloperidol and lorazepam and falsified parts of the form because he
only knew her first name.