Wally of the Week: Dr Daniel Coventry.

 

Dr Daniel Coventry

Wally of the week. Educated idiot, Daniel Coventry, aged 33, was suspended from medical practice for 6 months after he was found guilty of serious professional misconduct by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service in December 2019.

Coventry, a FY2 trainee junior doctor, had been reported to the General Medical Council because he'd been working while on sick leave from his £35,000-a-year job at Worthing Hospital in West Sussex.

It was discovered that Coventry had been undertaking private cosmetic surgery at the 'A New You' clinic in Brighton and at his own medical practice, 'DC Aesthetics', while pocketing paid sickness leave and being off work with a suspected virus infection.

 At the Tribunal, Coventry pleaded ignorance, insisting that he was unaware that there was any conflict of interest in doing private medical work while being off work with a sickness. He argued that he'd not knowingly been dishonest because he’d advertised his work on social media but accepted that he was naïve and had committed errors of judgement.

Before studying medicine at Oxford, Coventry had graduated with a first class degree in biology at the University of Brighton. Why the police weren’t brought in is a moot point. This looks suspiciously like fraud to me.