Dr. Peteris Loza

Name: Dr Peteris Loza
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The Panel will inquire into the allegation that Dr Loza, whilst working as a Foundation Year 2 Doctor at the West Suffolk Hospital submitted a number of training assessments which were completed and signed by Dr Loza in the name of other doctors and nurses.Further, it is alleged that Dr Loza registered for an assessor account using another doctors email address and used that account to complete and submit a form which purported to have been completed by another doctor.

Dr Peteris Loza admitted his behaviour last May had been misleading and dishonest, when he appeared at a GMC panel hearing this month.

He was working as a foundation Year 2 doctor in psychiatry, general medicine and orthopaedics at the Bury St Edmunds hospital when he signed off training assessment forms under the names of other doctors.

The panel heard he was under considerable pressure at the time and anxious about future job prospects.Having just got married, he was sleeping badly because of his young son.He had also been off sick with chicken pox.

Dr Loza admitted the offences.

The panel ruling said: "You have stated that you have analysed your actions and have concluded that they arose out of inexperience and naivety, a failure to ask for help from your local foundation training programme director, and poor time management."

The panel, however, concluded that Dr Loza's clinical competence had not been questioned but that his actions had raised the issue of doctors needing to act with honesty and integrity.

Peteris Loza, who worked as a foundation year two doctor at the Bury St Edmunds hospital, will face a GMC fitness to practise panel next week.

It is claimed Dr Loza signed a number of his training assessments in the name of other doctors and nurses.

He is also accused of registering for an assessor's account using another doctor's email address and submitting a form he claimed was completed by another doctor.

Dr Loza will answer to claims his conduct was misleading and dishonest in front of a GMC panel in Manchester next week.