1 week Ago By [email protected] (Mary Harris)
A former senior doctor who charged private health companies for £17,636 worth of procedures he hadn't carried out is struck off. Mohammed Sait, was an NHS consultant orthopaedic surgeon, working at and Gravesham NHS Trust and also privately, including at Fawkham Manor Hospital, run by BMI Healthcare. Dr Sait also forged letters from the companies he had invoiced for the bogus procedures, AXA PPP and Aviva, and presented them to an internal investigation at Fawkham Manor Hospital in 2016, a medical tribunal heard.
This happened between 2011 and 2015. After being charged by police, Dr Sait, whose specialty was shoulder and knee injury, was suspended by his employers and has not practised as a doctor since 2016. Dr Sait did not attend his tribunal which ended on October 2, was not represented and did not provide a witness statement.
The tribunal said on December 20 last year at Maidstone Crown Court, Dr Sait was convicted of two counts of fraud and two of forgery. And on March 4 this year, he was sentenced two 12 months in prison, suspended for 18 months, ordered to carry out 180 hours of unpaid work and a rehabilitation order. The tribunal report said ".
..Dr Sait had abused a position of trust, had sought to cover up his actions, had only demonstrated limited remorse – still not accepting the criminality of his actions – and that he had very little insight, meaning, therefore that there was a risk of him repeating his conduct".
It also said Dr Sait had "very little insight" into what he had done. The report said it was unable to rule out the possibility of Dr Sait repeating acts of dishonesty in the future. In 2018, Dr Sait was suspended for "inappropriate sexually motivated conduct towards a female patient", said the tribunal where submissions were made by the General Medical Council.
The report said this incident was an aggravating factor in the case, as was the fact Dr Sait's dishonest conduct in relation to the fraud and forgery was carried out during his work. A mitigating factor was that Dr Sait's convictions occurred "some time ago" and "there was no suggestion that Dr Sait had acted dishonestly since". The NHS trust told Dr Sait's contract ended at the end of 2019.
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