THE psychiatrist brother of Chancellor George Osborne is back before the General Medical Council after he admitted having sex with a vulnerable patient who had been under his care, a disciplinary panel has heard.
Dr Adam Osborne, who is currently suspended by the General Medical Council (GMC), admitted that he had engaged in an "inappropriate" emotional and sexual relationship with the woman, despite being her private psychiatrist.
The woman, referred to as Patient A, had been under Dr Osborne's care between February 2011 and late 2014 and had a history of mental ill health.
It is not the first time the younger brother of the Chancellor has been in the spotlight for medical failings.
In 2010 he 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 found that Dr Osborne, who is five years the junior of his Chancellor brother, had "behaved dishonestly" after attempting to obtain anti-psychotic medication for a cocaine-addicted woman he had been seeing while his partner was away.
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