A dentist who defrauded the NHS is at risk of serving a suspended jail sentence after failing to carry out unpaid work.
John Atkinson was found guilty of 17 charges of false accounting involving claims to the NHS for more than £20,000, after a trial this year.
He made 91 fraudulent claims to the NHS for treatment which he had carried out privately at Clarendon Road dental practice, in Hinckley.
At Leicester Crown Court in August, Atkinson (64), of Finham Road, Kenilworth, was sentenced to 12 months in prison, suspended for 12 months.
He was also ordered to carry out 300 hours of unpaid work.
But at Warwick Crown Court this month, Atkinson admitted breaching the suspended sentence order by failing to carry out the work.
It was claimed he had been unable to do the work because of a medical condition, so Judge Alan Parker adjourned the case for a report from Atkinson's doctor.
But at the resumed hearing, Ian Speed, defending, conceded a report handed to the judge from the doctor was "not sufficient".
Judge Parker said: "Either he is unfit to start work or he is fit and has not started it – and if that is the case, I expect him to be before Judge Hammond and to be sentenced to prison."
He adjourned the case for a further report from the doctor and to give Atkinson the chance to start the work.
