A drink-driving Liverpool doctor has seen his medical suspension extended.
Dr Josu Mendiguren was found to be almost four times over the legal limit when crashing his Volkswagen Golf into a number of parked vehicles in July 2023.
The disgraced practitioner, who had worked at Townsend Medical Centre in Anfield for more than 20 years, remained in post until the following September.
He was banned from driving for 30 months and ordered to carry out 160 hours of unpaid work when convicted at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court a month after the incident.
But Dr Mendiguren failed to inform the General Medical Counsel of his charge and conviction which saw his registration suspended for six months in November 2025.
That sanction was extended to 12 months in a hearing last month after a tribunal ruled they had seen ‘no evidence’ of a change in his perspective on the matter.
Documents released by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service also revealed that he admitted to turning up for work under the influence of alcohol at least once.
He was also found to have conducted a telephone consultation while drunk.
Dr Mendiguren moved to the UK shortly after qualifying in his native Spain in 1995 before training as a junior doctor and joining Townsend Medical Centre in 2002.