A GP specialty trainee who claimed nearly £10 000 in sick pay from one NHS trust while doing locum work for another has been suspended from the UK medical register for nine months.
Tracy Landu-Landu, 30, admitted lying to a human resources officer at St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust when first asked whether she had been working elsewhere. She acknowledged her deception soon after and admitted all charges at her medical practitioners tribunal hearing, which she attended without a lawyer.
After obtaining the training job at St Helens, her start date was delayed for reasons that were redacted from the tribunal’s findings, in line with tribunal practice in dealing with doctors’ health and …