A doctor who defrauded the NHS and funeral homes of £67 000 to feed a gambling addiction has been allowed to resume work, after 16 months of suspension, and already has two job offers, including one from his former workplace.

A medical practitioners tribunal reviewing his suspension heard that Aled Meirion Jones, who was convicted on two counts of fraud in January 2021, had paid back the money and completed his sentence of two years’ imprisonment suspended for two years, plus 200 hours unpaid work.

Jones, who was a registrar in nephrology and transplant surgery at the University Hospital of Wales, told the BBC in an interview that he had lost around £800 000 to gambling during a decade long addiction …