LINCOLN FAMILY DOCTOR MAINUDDIN AHMED WAS SUSPENDE

LINCOLN FAMILY DOCTOR MAINUDDIN AHMED WAS SUSPENDED FROM
PRACTISING FOR SIX MONTHS AFTER HE WAS CONVICTED OF FALSELY OBTAINING
OVER #6,000 IN MATERNITY PAYMENTS FROM HIS LOCAL HEALTH AUTHORITY.

A GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL DISCIPLINARY HEARING, SITTING IN
LONDON, HEARD ON MONDAY THAT 55 YEAR OLD DR AHMED WENT ON TRIAL AT
LINCOLN CROWN COURT IN AUGUST THIS YEAR ON 17 CHARGES OF FALSE
ACCOUNTING.

HE WAS FOUND GUILTY AND WAS FINED #7,000 WITH #3,000 COSTS, MR
PAUL HONIGMANN, FOR THE G.

M.

C.

, TOLD THE HEARING.

MR HONIGMANN SAID THE DOCTOR, OF NEWARK ROAD, LINCOLN, RAN A
JOINT PRACTISE WITH HIS WIFE.

BOTH GAVE OBSTETRIC CARE TO WOMEN
PATIENTS – BUT DOCTOR AHMED, AS A REGISTERED OBSTETRICIAN AND
GYNAECOLOGIST, WAS THE ONLY ONE ELIGIBLE TO CLAIM MATERNITY MEDICAL
SERVICE FEES.

HOWEVER, HE PUT CLAIMS IN FOR TIMES WHEN HE HAD NOT WORKED, OR
WHEN HIS WIFE HAD BEEN TREATING HIS PATIENTS – WHICH WAS AGAINST THE
MEDICAL REGULATIONS, SAID MR HONIGMANN.

‘DR AHMED CLAIMED FOR ANTE AND POST NATAL CARE GIVEN BY HIS
WIFE; HE CLAIMED FOR VISITS WHICH HAD NOT BEEN CARRIED OUT AT ALL,
AND BECAUSE SHE WAS NOT ON THE OBSTETRIC LIST, NO PAYMENT FOR HER WORK
WAS DUE,’ MR HONIGMANN EXPLAINED.

THE CON WAS ONLY UNCOVERED BY THE DISTRICT AUDITOR IN 1984,
AND THE POLICE WERE CALLED IN.

DR AHMED DENIED ANY DELIBERATE DECEPTION, TELLING DETECTIVES:
‘I CLAIMED ONLY FOR THE SERVICES I RENDERED.

‘
HE ALSO SAID HE HAD NOT REALISED IT WAS AGAINST REGULATIONS
FOR HIS WIFE TO EXAMINE AND VISIT HIS PATIENTS AND FOR HIM TO CLAIM
FEES FOR THIS.

DR AHMED’S COUNSEL, MR THAVARAJOO PILLAY (CORR.

) SAID THE
DOCTOR AND HIS WIFE HAD SEEN THEMSELVES AS ‘TWO SIDES OF THE SAME
COIN’ WITHIN THEIR PRACTISE.

‘THEIR PATIENTS WERE REGISTERED WITH JUST ONE OF THEM, BUT
THEY COULD SEE EITHER,’ HE SAID, AAHMED WAS JUST AS
WELL QUALIFIED AS HER HUSBAND.

‘DESPITE HIS FALL FROM GRACE HE IS A COMMITTED, HARDWORKING
AND CONSCIENTIOUS DOCTOR.

PATIENTS DESCRIBE BOTH HIMSELF AND HIS WIFE
AS KIND, CONSIDERATE AND HELPFUL,’ ADDED MR PILLAY.

CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTE PROFESSOR H.

L.

DUTHIE TOLD DR AHMED:
‘WE CANNOT FAIL TO BE GRAVELY CONCERNED FOLLOWING YOUR CONVICTION.

WE
DEPLORE YOUR PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT.

‘
THE COUNCIL ORDERED THAT THE DOCTOR’S SIX MONTHS SUSPENSION
TAKE EFFECT IN 28 DAYS TIME.

ENDS*