Healthy teacher pretended she had cancer and set up fake blog about treatment But later Mr Varey realised the report was bogus. He then interviewed her at St Bede's Catholic High School in Lytham St Anne's, Lancs and she eventually admitted she had lied. Warned that she faced disciplinary proceedings, she then resigned in November last year. Yesterday Teaching Agency official Alan Meyrick announced she had been banned from the profession for at least eight years. He said: "Miss Lamb misled her colleagues and others over a long period of time and did so dishonestly. She also provided a false medical report to her employer and did so in a premeditated way. As such, she is guilty of serious professional misconduct. Among the evidence seen by the panel was a letter from cancer specialist Dr Rajaram Sripadam confirming that a medical report said to have been written by him was false. Miss Lamb, who taught at the school between 2007 and last year, did not attend the hearing and not represented. Mr Varey told the panel there had been no previous concerns about her teaching. She had been "a good music teacher, very popular and very involved in charitable work in the community." She had expressed "regret and remorse" when he interviewed her. Mr Meyrick said: "There is a risk to the public and to pupils if somebody who lied over a long period of time, who was dishonestly misleading, took advantage of her colleagues' sympathy and who damaged children's education by being absent from school