In an angry X rant Apprentice star Dr Asif Munaf described his doctors as ‘well-qualified professionals’ not ‘guys scribbling on Post-it notes’ after he was suspended by the medical council
A former NHS doctor and reality TV star has been suspended by the medical council for spearheading a company flogging sick notes.
Dr Asif Munaf, who featured on the TV show Apprentice, set up Dr Sick Ltd in September 2024 to start selling doctor’s notes for a cheap as £29. Dr Sick enables people to “beat the GP wait” and “have a doctor-verified sick note in as little as two hours”, according to the company’s website.
“Sick” folk could apply for a note by completing an online questionnaire – without the need to see a doctor face to face at all.
A Telegraph investigation detailed that undercover reporters were able to be signed off for months with Covid just hours after submitting a request, and without needing to provide proof of a positive test.
Reporters were able to get a note for anxiety after faking their dog was dying. One reporter asked for a note to work from home for four weeks, including in their request they were trying to blag the system, writing “to be honest, I need this adjustment because I want to join my friends on holiday in Malta next month”.
Ranting on X, Dr Munaf responded: “I don’t issue the medical notes – I run the business,” adding that it’s “like assuming he Uber CEO is personally giving people rides”.
He added that Dr Sick was an “ICO-registered digital service with a team of five fully GMC-registered UK doctors” who are “well-qualified, regulated professionals, not guys scribbling on Post-it notes behind a kebab shop”.
In his confrontational X retort, Asif continued: “Dr Sick doesn’t offer ‘medical consultations’ – we offer medical certification from registered doctors. This is not a GP surgery, nor is it pretending to be. No stethoscopes, no pretending to be House MD here. As for my own consultations, these are heath and lifestyle focused.”
It’s not the only controversy to embroil the medic. MailOnline reports the health professional and entrepreneur, who also appeared on Dragons’ Den, was suspended from the medical register last February, only a week after the BBC removed him from the Apprentice spin-off due to “antisemitic remarks”.
The controversial and mouthy doc copped angry backlash for making a series of “anti-Jewish” posts, including calling Zionism a “satanic cult and Zionsists “odiously order-like” following Hamas’ October 7 attacks.
More recently, Dr Munaf retweeted support for Bobby Vylan’s Glastonbury stunt, where the rapper led chants calling for the deaths of Israeli soldiers.
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