NHS workers in pension scandal reveal how Ladywood GP left them with finance headache

Aug 6 2010 by Alison Dayani, Birmingham Mail

NHS workers left with a financial headache by a Birmingham doctor who was struck off for failing to pay their pension contributions have revealed he has yet to apologise to them.

GP Kenneth McNeil Bartley, who worked at Broadway Health Centre and then Five Ways Health Centre, both in Ladywood, was eliminated from the medical register for his “cavalier” attitude towards staff pensions.

And an angry worker said he has never apologised for what he did.

The 61 year-old doctor, from St James Road, Edgbaston, took deductions from three workers’ salaries without paying them into the NHS Pension Scheme.

He also claimed NHS cash for dead patients and people not registered or receiving treatment.

One of his employees, who feared reprisals if named, said: “Staff kept telling Bartley he needed to pay the money into our pension funds, but he would make excuses.