Guilty of misconduct

Stephen Perry, aged 33, has been found guilty of professional misconduct. He kept his stamped prescription pad when he left the child psychiatry department at Oxleas NHS Trust, which covers Bromley borough, in October 2000. He used it to wrongly write out nine prescriptions for massive doses of slimming pills and addictive tranquillisers for his apartment roommate from December 2000 to March 2002. Counsel for the GMC Fiona Horlick said some of the drugs had a street value and the quantities and combinations of drugs were “inappropriate”. Perry, who now works at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, has avoided being "struck off" by the British General Medical Council (GMC) on July 24.