Family doctor suspended after faking appointments to do the school run

Dr Helen Eisenhauer has been suspended from practice for five months after admitting to misconduct charges

A family doctor who faked medical appointments at work to do the afternoon school run has been banned from treating patients for five months.

Dr Helen Eisenhauer, 43, feared that last-minute consultations booked in by colleagues would leave her unable to collect her two children from after-school club by 6pm.

To finish at her normal finishing time of 4.45pm, she made up...