{"id":185068,"date":"2025-06-15T00:43:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T00:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/185068\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T00:43:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T00:43:24","slug":"hillingdon-hospital-drugs-theft-doctor-struck-off-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/185068\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillingdon Hospital: Drugs-theft doctor struck off"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AnahitaAnahita Hossein-Pour<\/p>\n

In 2009, Dr Babatune Aranmolate was removed from the medical register but restored to it 2017 after displaying “significant efforts” to rehabilitate himself<\/p>\n

A doctor has been struck off for the second time “to protect the public” after stealing medication and trying to cover up the theft.<\/p>\n

In February 2023, Dr Babatunde Aranmolate removed drugs from a locked cupboard at Hillington Hospital, west London, without authorisation.<\/p>\n

An NHS England tribunal heard that four days later, he gave them to a personal contact who was not a patient and did not require emergency treatment. He also took medication prescribed to another patient.<\/p>\n

Between 1999 and 2006, Dr Aranmolate was the subject of a series of misconduct findings relating to false claims, dishonesty and a breach of suspension. He was erased from the medical register in 2009 but reinstated in 2017.<\/p>\n

‘Duty to act decisively’<\/p>\n

Eight months after his recent misconduct, the doctor pressured two co-workers to give false statements, according to LDRS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He asked one of the doctors to prepare a report for the General Medical Council (GMC) claiming discussions and a verbal warning had taken place.<\/p>\n

He also indicated to her that he had already notified the GMC that she would write a statement to confirm what was false as true.<\/p>\n

Dr Aranmolate drafted an email report for another doctor to send to the GMC and in July 2024 was interviewed by a senior clinician about the matter but continued to lie.<\/p>\n

As a result, NHS England embarked on an inquiry about whether the medication had been stored correctly.<\/p>\n

During the proceedings, the tribunal found Dr Aranmolate’s fitness to practise to be impaired due to serious misconduct and multiple acts of dishonesty.<\/p>\n

The tribunal considered a risk of repetition and ordered his erasure from the medical register and an immediate suspension “to protect the public”.<\/p>\n

A Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust spokesperson said: “Our role as a healthcare provider is to ensure all healthcare professionals working within our organisation adhere to the highest standards of professional conduct and patient safety.<\/p>\n

“When these standards are not followed, we have a duty to act decisively and swiftly in the interest of our patients.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anahita Hossein-Pour In 2009, Dr Babatune Aranmolate was removed from the medical register but restored to it 2017…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-185068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114684612041458608","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}