A widow spoke of her anger last night after an out of hours doctor who diagnosed her stroke victim husband with vertigo over the phone escaped being struck off.
Dr Francisca Ogunbiyi twice refused to visit Jeffrey Wingrove, 48, after he collapsed at home with severe vomiting and crippling headaches.
Instead she decided he was suffering from vertigo and prescribed some anti-sickness drugs for his wife, Isabelle, to collect.
Mr Wingrove, a father-of-two who ran marathons, died 48 hours later.
His family have since been awarded a six-figure sum in an out-of-court settlement for clinical negligence against the family doctor and East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust.
Nigerian-trained Ogunbiyi could have been struck off by the General Medical Council, which heard Mr Wingrove would have lived if his stroke had been diagnosed earlier.
But in May she was handed a warning which must be declared to employers for the next five years.
She appealed against the ruling, which was upheld yesterday during a five-hour hearing in London.
Mrs Wingrove, 54, said: ‘If he had been given medical attention and she did her job properly he would have survived. I can’t understand how she gets a warning and can continue working.
‘Not only has she taken my husband’s life but she took him away from me. I’m so very disappointed in the system.
Dr Ogunbiyi, who lives in Benfleet, Essex, and works at Vange Health Centre in Basildon, was sacked by Primecare after the tragedy.
She is yet to make a comment since the hearing
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