An ex-government adviser accused of groping four female colleagues on a Christmas night out has been issued with a warning.
Professor Alistair Leanord was with fellow workers from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde when the incidents took place in December 2017.
The women complained to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital that Leanord, 56, had groped them at Glasgow nightclub.
An anonymous complaint was also made to the General Medical Council.
The GMC investigated the allegations against Leanord, who was a medical adviser to the Scottish Government until the end of last year.
Leanord, who is now a director of the Scottish Microbiology Reference Laboratories at Glasgow’s Royal Infirmary, claimed he couldn’t remember what happened that night.
But he accepted the women had “perceived his behaviour” to be inappropriate or unacceptable.
The GMC issued him with a warning.
It said his conduct had brought the profession into disrepute but that he faced no further action.
