"The professional conduct committee investigation was placed on hold pending the outcome of the criminal trial. The professional conduct committee will resume its investigation immediately.
"An option available to the professional conduct committee is to file a charge in the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal. If Dr Skantha is found to have been convicted of an offence which reflects adversely on his fitness to practise, the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal may cancel Dr Skantha's registration."
She extended the council's deepest sympathies to the family of Miss Rush.
The High Court heard Skantha's motive for killing Miss Rush was to save his job at Dunedin Hospital.
Skantha was convicted of murder. Photo / Christine O'Connor
She told him she was serious about going to the police and his employer with claims he was "touching up" minors without consent, supplying them alcohol and offering money for sex.
On 2 February, 2018, the pair shared a terse back-and-forth via a messenger service on social media with Miss Rush ending the exchange with "you know what you were doing when you did it. For that you deserve everything you're gonna get".
Half an hour later she was stabbed to death in her bed.
Shane Rush speaks after a jury in the High Court at Dunedin this afternoon unanimously found Venod Skantha was responsible for the murder of 16-year-old Amber-Rose Rush. Photo / Peter McIntosh
The court heard how Skantha was already on thin ice at work after showing up in July 2017 while off-duty and after drinking, and treating a patient.
Just minutes before her death, Amber-Rose confirmed she was serious about taking her complaints to police and Skantha's superiors at Dunedin Hospital. Photo / File
He only saved his job on that occasion by lying about his mother's death.
