A GP, who trained in the town and worked in the NHS for 26 years, has been struck off after a General Medical Council (GMC) hearing highlighted a catalogue of failures that put the 'health and safety of patients and other medical staff at risk'.

Sirajam Haque was investigated after a whistle blower brought to light a number of failings including prescribing the contraceptive pill to a woman who was trying to conceive, prescribing steroid medication to a patient with a skin condition which could have exacerbated the infection and conducting a chest examination on a patient with diarrhoea.

It was also found he failed to inform medical staff a patient had hepatitis B, putting their safety at risk.

Dr Haque, who was not present at the hearing in Manchester, qualified in India in 1972 before training as a GP in Warrington in 1986.

He worked as a locum GP from 1990 before becoming a partner at the Primrose Surgery in Keighley, West Yorkshire, where the incidents had occurred.

The investigation found that there was no prospect of Dr Haque bringing his skills up to the required standard and that he should be struck off.