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A senior GP wrote prescriptions for a family member in order to use the medication himself, then lied about it to try cover his tracks. Dr Masud Prodhan , who once hit the headlines when he went to work on his wedding day to help during a staffing crisis , has been struck off after a tribunal found he was guilty of serious misconduct.

Over a four year period Dr Prodhan, who ran Gloucester House Medical Practice in Urmston and Old Trafford Medical Practice, 'self-prescribed' more than 700 tablets of the medication, the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service heard.

The 56-year-old admitted to the tribunal that between November 2015 and June 2019 he dishonestly used the patient's medical records on seven occasions to prescribe the drug, whose name has been redacted in th

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