Either Dr Anthony Madu pays back cash or face being jailed on HWN HIGHLIGHT

A disgraced doctor who moonlighted while getting paid sick leave is being told to pay back nearly £100,000 to the NHS - or face being jailed.
 
Gynaecologist Dr Anthony Madu, 45, secretly carried out well-paid locum work while getting sick pay from another hospital.
Specialist registrar Madu was convicted of six charges of fraud by working at hospitals across England while employed at the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. Madu - who was described in court as "irresponsible and dishonest" - appeared at a Proceeds of Crime hearing to get back the money.
 
Prosecutor Christian Jowett told Cardiff Crown Court that the amount being claimed from Madu was £98,000. He said: "The doctor has transferred £95,000 to a bank account in Nigeria."
Nigerian-born Madu was given the specialist registrar obstetrics gynaecology post at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, in August 2009. Madu then made "tens of thousands of pounds" while working for Sandwell General Hospital in Birmingham as well as Scarborough General Hospital and The Royal Oldham Hospital in Greater Manchester.
 
Mr Jowett told the court: "He was legally obliged to tell his employers about his work but he did not do so. He was also legally obliged to tell two locum agencies that he was on extended leave and had been granted sickness leave.
"But he continued to work and receive payment from both Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and his work in England."
 
But he was suspended and put on extended leave two months later over allegations about his conduct towards other staff and claims he had falsified his training record.
From January 2010, he then submitted sick notes on three different occasions, saying he could not work because of stress - but then worked as a locum at four hospitals in England.
Locum agencies said they had never been informed by Madu that he was in receipt of sickness notes. NHS bosses had to pay £20,000 to other doctors to cover Madu, meaning the bill for his dishonesty came to around £50,000.
 
The total cost to the Welsh NHS for covering his absence was £49,000 and Madu received more than £100,000 for working as a locum and £29,000 in sick pay.
He was convicted of failing to declare to Cardiff and Vale University Health Board (CVUHB) he had taken secondary employment, that he had failed to tell two different agencies, Medacs and JCJ, he had been signed off sick and that he did not declare to either agency he had been suspended.
 
Judge David Wyn Morgan spared Madu an immediate jail sentence because a psychiatric report said he would be at “high risk” of suicide if he was jailed.
Judge Morgan said: “You have persuaded yourself of your innocence of these matters in the face of the evidence. In pursuing a medical career in the UK you have overstretched yourself and have resorted to dishonesty to cover up your shortcomings. “These convictions will make it impossible for you to practice medicine in the UK ever again.” Madu, of Woolwich, London, was handed a 24-month suspended prison sentence after being convicted. Prosecutors are now claiming compensation from the doctor for his criminal activities. He could be jailed if he refuses to pay up.
 
The Proceeds of Crime hearing was adjourned until a later date for further investigation into Madu's assets.