BBC psychiatrist Tonmoy Sharma has been struck off the medical register

BBC psychiatrist Tonmoy Sharma is struck off

Extract from the Telegraph:

"A psychiatrist who regularly appeared as an expert on the BBC has been struck off the medical register after he lied about his academic qualifications and performed unethical drugs tests on mentally ill patients.

Tonmoy Sharma, who was a senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, has been exposed as a fraud who repeatedly referred to himself as a "professor" when records show that he had never completed a PhD thesis.

Despite this, Sharma, who was registered at the Clinical Neuroscience Research Centre in Dartford, Kent, regularly used the letters PhD after his name and managed to deceive the NHS and some of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies.

He also appeared on the BBC2 series Mind of a Murderer in 2000 and was often used as an expert commentator on BBC News Online stories.

A General Medical Council panel yesterday found Sharma guilty of "serious failings of personal integrity" after hearing that he recruited mentally ill patients to test drugs without seeking proper approval.

Andrew Popat, chairman of the panel, told Sharma: "Your persistent and wide-ranging dishonesty and untruthfulness, spanning a number of years, together with your lack of insight, is so serious that it is fundamentally incompatible with your continuing to be a registered medical practitioner.""

NHS 'saves millions' by cracking down on fraud

NHS 'saves millions' by cracking down on fraud

Extract from the report:

"The NHS has saved 811 million pounds by cracking down on fraud, official figures released recently show.In the last eight years the service has launched a concerted effort to dispel fraud, and since 1999 patient fraud has fallen by a full 55 per cent, the figures from the NHS Counter Fraud Service indicate.And fraud by NHS workers themselves has fallen by 60 per cent, the service claims."

The most pernicious, widespread and catastrophically damaging fraud perpetrated almost universally throughout the health service is the unsubstantiated and constantly reiterated claim that obesity is caused by over-eating and can be remedied or reduced by reducing calorie intake. And the money savings bruited in this report pale into insignificance when compared with the vast waste of money and resources expended both by the NHS and by individual patients because of these false claims as to obesity's causes and remedies. But the greatest cost is, of course, the needless suffering and shortened lives of the victims of this medical negligence...)o:

Obesity is caused by fluid retention, not by over-eating, and the most severe cases of obesity are most commonly caused by inappropriate prescribing and poor or non-existant monitoring, of certain steroids, HRT, anti-depressants and other drugs, often in high dose, by NHS doctors who should know better, but don't...)o:

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