A GP has been suspended for faking appointments with patients she did not need to see to allow her to collect her children after school.
On one Friday in July 2024, Dr Helen Eisenhauer – who has worked at Stenhouse Medical Centre in Arnold, Nottinghamshire, since 2018 – booked face-to-face appointments for two patients she had already spoken to on the phone, a tribunal heard.
When “anomalies” were found in the notes of one of the patients, Dr Eisenhauer was investigated and later referred herself to the General Medical Council to admit the allegations.
The tribunal found she had committed serious misconduct by “putting her own interests before her patients”, and suspended her for five months.