GP 'faked' address over school bid

A GP gave a false address to education chiefs to help his lover's child get into a good school, a disciplinary hearing was told.

Stephen Lockyer wrote a medical report which falsely stated the boy lived at the home of the receptionist at his surgery in Almondsbury, Bristol.

He also failed to mention he was having a relationship with the youngster's mother at the time, a General Medical Council (GMC) disciplinary hearing heard.

Richard Pearce, counsel for the GMC, told a Fitness to Practise Panel sitting in Manchester that Dr Lockyer had "assisted" in the deception of South Gloucestershire Education Authority.

He said the mother first applied to get her child, referred to as N, into a particular school in September 2000 but was turned down twice before he was finally admitted after Dr Lockyer wrote a medical report in support of an appeal in December 2003.

The panel heard that N's mother knew Dr Lockyer's receptionist, Elizabeth Treasure, who lived in the school's catchment area, and it was her address that was given.

Mr Pearce said: "The GMC contends that the only purpose in using Miss Treasure's address was to assist in gaining the place because it was in the catchment area of the school."

Dr Lockyer accepted writing N a prescription in July 2004 which used the false address. However, N did not attend a consultation.

Mr Pearce said it was "inappropriate" that Dr Lockyer, who has practised at the surgery since 1983, did not reveal that he and N's mother had been romantically involved since July 1999 and had lived together since the spring of 2000.

Dr Lockyer, 55, denies writing false information in N's medical records and that his actions were intended to mislead the education authority. He also denies his actions were dishonest, fraudulent, unprofessional and liable to bring the profession into disrepute.

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