A medic rapped for letting colleagues see images of naked patients at a staff leaving do will face investigation about allegedly sexually-motivated "inappropriate behaviour". Dr Christopher Valentine, 60, is alleged to have "behaved inappropriately towards six patients" between May 2017 and March 2018 by "taking photographs and making inappropriate and untrue statements during clinical examinations".
A tribunal into his fitness to practise as a doctor is set to consider allegations the specialist's actions during these consultations at a sexual health clinic in Dunoon, Argyll and Bute, were "not clinically indicated, dishonest and sexually motivated". Furthermore, it is alleged Dr Valentine "failed to make an adequate record of the consultations".
Dr Valentine, an expert in HIV and sexual health medicine who qualified at Leeds University in 1986, has been investigated on two occasions previously. Hearings before an expert panel at the Medical Practitioners' Tribunal Service (MPTS) in Manchester are expected to last until November 4 and sanctions include being struck off, after being investigated by the General Medical Council.
