A DOCTOR who diagnosed a string of food poisoning cases – on behalf of his wife’s solicitors firm – has been struck off.

Dr Zuber Bux’s conduct, writing medical reports without even considering possible alternatives, had been “wholly deplorable”, the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) has ruled.

The former Blackburn GP, who has worked at Brookhouse Medical Centre and as a locum for The Family Practice at Barbara Castle Way Health Centre, was also sanctioned over the circumcision of a 15-month-old baby with a heart condition.

Dr Bux had carried out more than 400 holiday sickness claims and earned £70,000 plus for the work over a four-year period, an MPTS fitness to practise hearing was told.

But his wife Sehana was a partner at Preston-based AMS Solicitors, which commissioned him to carry out the work, heard the watchdog, creating a clear conflict of interest.

The MPTS panel, which heard evidence about five specific holiday cases, found that the doctor’s actions were misleading, dishonest and financially motivated and his fitness to practice had been impaired.

Tribunal chairman Julia Oakford, confirming Dr Bux erasure from the medical register, said: “The holiday sickness claims misconduct involved dishonesty that was covered up.

“It involved lying to solicitors, false declarations to the court, deceptive expert reports and it was financially motivated. Overall, it was wholly deplorable and reprehensible behaviour by a doctor.”

The panel also ruled his conduct in the circumcision case was also grave and could have resulted in the infant’s death.

Dr Bux failed to warn the boy’s parents of the risks associated with the surgery, given his cardiac condition, they said.