Diving Doctor Suspended For Nine Months

A GP and diving doctor who ran internet consultations has been suspended for nine months by the GMC for irresponsible prescribing.
Dr Julian (Jules) Eden was found to have acted irresponsibly, or not in the patient's best interests in the cases of three patients and two undercover journalists who applied for prescriptions from his website.
Drugs he was found to have prescribed included valium and a year's supply of the addictive painkiller dihydrocodeine to patients after just a five-minute internet consultation. In one case a suicidal 16-year-old boy was prescribed 60 sedatives and within two months had overdosed on the drugs.