A MERSEYSIDE hospital doctor has been called before the General Medical Council after being accused of indecently touching colleagues.

Dr Waqar Azim is alleged to have touched the breasts of three female nursing assistants, known only as Ms A, Ms B and Ms D while he worked at the University Hospital Aintree, in Fazakerley.

He is also alleged to have touched Ms D’s groin during an examination of lumps on her neck, and to have made inappropriate or sexually motivated comments to other members of the nursing team in the gastroenterology department where he was based.

The General Medical Council (GMC) fitness to practise panel heard how the doctor asked one nursing assistant, Ms C, if she used pornographic websites.

He also allegedly told a pregnant colleague, Ms E, that he could tell she was expecting a baby “from the warmth of your underneath when you sat on my knee at the Christmas party”.

Ms A described to the GMC how Dr Azim touched her breasts on two occasions between 2005 and 2006.

She told the panel that the first incident occurred during a discussion about the fob watch she wore pinned to her uniform.

After asking the woman how she read the time, the doctor allegedly lifted the fob watch and, in the process, brushed his hand over her breast.

Ms A told the hearing: “I didn’t want to believe it was intentional because you don’t want to believe things like that, but in my heart I knew.”

The GMC heard how, some time later, the pair were discussing dieting when Dr Azim took hold of Ms A’s breast and said there was “nothing wrong” with her.