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George Osborne’s Brother Adam Admits Having Sex With Vulnerable Patient

The brother of the chancellor George Osborne has admitted having sex with a vulnerable patient under his care.

Dr Adam Osborne, who is currently suspended by the General Medical Council (GMC), admitted he engaged in an “inappropriate” emotional and sexual relationship with the woman, despite being her private psychiatrist.

The woman, referred to as Patient A, was under Dr Osborne’s care between February 2011 and late 2014 and had a history of mental ill health.

Dr Osborne, who qualified as a doctor in 2004, did not attend the latest Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) hearing sitting in Manchester on Monday.

The hearing opens formally on Tuesday and will decide on his fitness to practise.

Dr Osborne, who qualified as a doctor in 2004, admits that he knew or ought reasonably to have known that the woman was a vulnerable patient because of her history of mental ill health.

He admitted that between February 14 and February 24 last year he sent inappropriate emails to Patient A which referred to requests that she withdraw her complaint to the GMC against him, made threats towards her and the consequences for her family if she did not withdraw her complaint, and an accusation that she had seduced him.

In 2010, Dr Osborne was suspended from practising medicine for six months after writing fraudulent prescriptions for a girlfriend, a family member and an escort girl whilst a psychiatry trainee at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester.

The GMC ruled that Dr Osborne who is five years younger than his brother George, had “behaved dishonestly” after attempting to obtain anti-psychotic medication for a cocaine-addicted woman he had been seeing while his partner was away.

That tribunal said the misconduct, which related to incidents between June 2006 and May 2008, impaired his fitness to practise.

The latest hearing is due to last 10 days.

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