A PSYCHIATRIST who behaved in a sexually motivated way and made lewd comments towards patients and staff at a South Derbyshire clinic is set to be struck-off.
Dr Andrew Clayton, former joint medical director of Derbyshire Mental Health Services NHS Trust, will be removed from the medical register following a General Medical Council hearing in Manchester.
After the hearing, the panel said that Clayton had acted in a sexually motivated way for 12 years.
A statement from the panel after the hearing finished said: “Dr Clayton’s misconduct and convictions are fundamentally incompatible with his continuing to practice medicine.
Clayton practised as a consultant psychiatrist in South Derbyshire from 1987 until April 2008.
In September 1990, a vulnerable female patient, identified only as Ms A, consulted Dr Clayton at Swadlincote Clinic and, during his consultation with her, he asked her to undress down to the waist and touched her breasts.
In October 1998, at Swadlincote Clinic, another vulnerable female patient, Ms B, attended a consultation with Dr Clayton, in the course of which, she stated that she was pregnant and expressed concern over breast feeding.
Dr Clayton made inappropriate comments towards the patient and fondled her breasts.
On both occasions, Clayton did not ask the patients if they wanted someone else in the room — something he was required to do.
He was also found to have abused his position as a consultant psychiatrist accompanying a trainee occupational therapist by making lewd comments at Swadlincote Clinic between September 2002 and November 2002.
