A doctor accused of prescribing drugs to herself lost name suppression when she failed to attend a disciplinary hearing today.
Dr Angnieska Elzbieta Kleszcz was a registrar at Rehab Plus, an Auckland District Health Board rehabilitation facility in Pt Chevalier.
A Medical Council committee alleges that the doctor wrote prescriptions in the name of a patient for medicines that were for her own use.
The alleged professional misconduct occurred in September and October 2014 and involved drugs including diazepam and pethidine.
The committee's lawyer, Jonathan Coates, said Kleszcz presented the prescriptions and collected the drugs from a West Auckland pharmacy.