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A top heart doctor repeatedly stole drugs from a hospital for his own personal use, a tribunal heard. Consultant cardiologist Dr Paul Dunne 'misappropriated' medication from Royal Bolton Hospital on several occasions in 2021.
The tribunal heard he had 'obtained' the security code for the treatment room from nurses and would take medication which had not been put away or, by taking the key when no-one was looking, open the medicine cabinet. On one occasion he also asked a nurse if an unnamed medication was available, falsely claiming it was for a patient who was coming in for a echocardiogram later that day.
The thefts were described as 'calculated and manipulative'. Dr Dunne was sacked on August 12, 2022, following an internal investigation.
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The following day he was arrested on Chester Road after being found to be more than three times the drink drive limit. At Chester magistrates' court the following month he was banned from driving for 26 months, given a community order and fined £120.
But, the tribunal heard, Dr Dunne failed to inform the General Medical Council of his conviction, as is required, until a number of weeks later. At the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service hearing Dr Dunne, who qualified from the University of Manchester in 2003 and began working at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust in 2015, was found guilty of serious professional misconduct in a hearing which was told he had been 'repeatedly stealing medication'.
Rina Hill, on behalf of the GMC, told the tribunal that on four occasions in June and August 2021 Dr Dunne 'misappropriated one or more tablets' from a medicine cabinet and from
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