Apprentice star Dr Asif Munaf, who has been suspended by the medical council, is the brainchild of a company offering sick notes for as little as £29.
The former NHS doctor, 37, set up Dr Sick Ltd in September 2024, according to documents filed to Companies House.
The website offers to ‘beat the GP wait’ and ‘have a doctor-verified sick note in as little as two hours’.
People are able to apply by completing a questionnaire online without a face-to-face appointment or consultation.
But an investigation by the Telegraph revealed undercover reporters were able to be signed off for months with Covid hours after submitting a request – despite not providing proof of a positive test.
They also were able to get a note for anxiety when they pretended their dog was dying.
A reporter even asked for a note to work from home for four weeks writing in their request that ‘to be honest, I need this adjustment because I want to join my friends on holiday in Malta next month’.
In a long rant on X in response, Dr Munaf said ‘I don’t issue the medical notes – I run the business’ and said Dr Sick was an ‘ICO-registered digital service with a team of five fully GMC-registered UK doctors’.
Apprentice star Dr Asif Munaf, who has been suspended by the medical council, is the brainchild of a company offering sick notes for as little as £29
The former NHS doctor, 37, set up Dr Sick Ltd in September 2024, according to documents filed to Companies House
He said the doctors issue the notes in accordance with HIPAA-aligned guidelines, a US healthcare privacy law.
Dr Munaf said: ‘These are well-qualified, regulated professionals, not guys scribbling on Post-it notes behind a kebab shop.’
Dr Munaf, who has appeared on Dragons’ Den, was suspended from the medical register last February, a week after the BBC dropped him from their Apprentice spin-off show for making ‘anti-Semitic remarks’.
His comments sparked a furious backlash after he made a series of ‘anti-Jewish’ posts, including calling Zionism a ‘satanic cult’ and Zionists ‘odiously ogre-like’ in the aftermath of Hamas’ murderous October 7 attacks.
Dr Munaf said 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,’ he said.
He posted a link within his barbed retort where people can book a 45-minute consultation with him for £150.
The one-to-one call vows to give ‘expert guidance on business, health, and peak performance’.
In a long rant on X in response, Dr Munaf said ‘I don’t issue the medical notes – I run the business’ and said Dr Sick was an ‘ICO-registered digital service with a team of five fully GMC-registered UK doctors’
MailOnline has contacted the GMC for comment.
In February last year, Dr Munaf said he wasn’t shaken by calls to have him struck off the medical register over his ‘anti-Semitic remarks’.
In a series of posts on X, he wrote: ‘They have tried to get me struck off by referring me to the General Medical Council.
‘They think this will shake me. It only strengthens me. Don’t they know that the exact amount of money I will make before I die was written before I was even conceived? I have absolute conviction in my Lords Decree.’
He has previously been accused by ‘horrified’ fellow Apprentice contestants of making vile comments about women and ‘only having sex with virgins’. He quickly denied the claims.
‘Asif made the candidates feel uncomfortable. They were particularly shocked when they heard the way he spoke about sex and women,’ a source told The Sun.
The source added: ‘Crew members were also horrified and could not believe someone with this attitude had made it so far in the process.’
