'Britain's worst GP' bit cop and caught driving drunk avoids NHS suspension
A doctor who was once labelled “Britain’s worst GP” after she bit a police officer and was caught drink-driving twice has avoided suspension because of her “positive contribution” to the NHS.
Dr Jane Horsey who had worked in Keighley, Yorkshire, was given a set of conditions to follow rather than face being struck off despite being caught drink-driving for the second time in 2018. In 2009 she also crashed her car and refused to comply with a breath test. When the officer tried to restrain her, she bit him on the arm.
Documents submitted to the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) stated: “She feels that she has a useful role to play. She said that she has discussed with GP colleagues the stresses and difficulties GPs currently face.” The MPTS gave Dr Horsey a set of conditions to meet for the next year, including that she carry out an approved GP returners scheme to make sure her clinical skills were up to date.
She must be supervised at all times and is limited on the number of hours she is allowed to work. The MPTS said that the decision between her being struck off and imposing conditions was “finely balanced”.
She has not worked as a GP since 2016 and had limitations imposed on how she was able to work since 2014 after she received a drunk and disorderly conviction. Bradford Crown Court heard in 2010 how a police officer was forced to hit her on the head and use pepper spray to restrain her.
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In the 2018 incident she bought a bottle of wine in a Tesco in Skipton, North Yorkshire, where staff called the police after noticing she smelt of alcohol and had driven to the shop. She admitted to police that she had drunk two or three glasses of wine following an argument with her mother before she drove to the store.
She was convicted for drink-driving after she was found to be twice over the limit.
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