The doctors who have been suspended or banned in Greater Manchester

One was caught peddling covid conspiracies online. Another fiddled his time sheets to falsely claim more than £40,000 from the NHS when in fact he was holiday thousands of miles away.

A third bungled a bundled a delivery so badly it left a new mum 'feeling like a cow'. They are the disgraced Greater Manchester doctors who betrayed the oath they took to act with 'with integrity, humility, honesty and compassion'.

And their actions mean they've been barred from practising medicine.

One of the country's most senior GPs, Dr Robert Varnam, was struck off after being convicted of downloading hundreds of child abuse images. Dr Robert Varnam claimed he amassed the vile collection after 'neglecting his self-care' while working 75 hour weeks and 'rarely taking a break'.

The 52-year-old was convicted of child sex offences after being detained by police in 2020 when he was caught with 241 indecent images, some showing children as young as six-years-old.

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Varnam, who at the time was practising as a GP at the Robert Darbishire Practice in Rusholme and was also Director of General Practice Development for NHS England, denied he had a sexual interest in children and said he no recollection of downloading the images. He was later struck off the medical register after his fitness to practise was found to be impaired.

Senior NHS surgeon Dr Muhammad Adil was struck off for claiming the Covid pandemic was a 'worldwide conspiracy' and publicly criticising lockdowns and vaccines. Dr Adil who had worked at hospitals across the Greater Manchester, was brought before a disciplinary tribunal after he labelled Covid a 'flu like virus' and repeated various conspiracy theories