The Scots nurse who survived Ebola is expected to give evidence this week at a disciplinary hearing of a doctor who took her temperature hours before she was diagnosed with the disease.

Dr Hannah Ryan is the latest health professional to face misconduct allegations after an airport screening process failed to raise the alert over the health of Pauline Cafferkey following her return to the UK from a volunteering stint in Sierra Leone in 2014.

Ryan, who is based in London, and was also a volunteer in Sierra Leone, is facing allegations of “misleading actions” and “dishonest conduct” after taking Cafferkey’s temperature.

The allegations also state that she later tried to conceal her involvement in the taking and recording of Cafferkey’s temperature in a phone call to another doctor.

Despite Cafferkey having a high temperature – which should have triggered concerns she was infected with Ebola – she was given the green light to travel onwards from Heathrow to Glasgow.

When she fell ill it triggered a major health alert and she had to be taken by military transport to the Royal Free Hospital in London for specialist treatment.

Cafferkey herself faced misconduct charges by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) - but was cleared of all charges in September last year.

In November senior nurse Donna Wood, another volunteer in Sierra Leone, was suspended for two months by the NMC after a disciplinary panel found she had concealed the true temperature of Cafferkey. It concluded her dishonesty was “very serious, but not premeditated.”

Ryan was a witness at that hearing, which heard how she had taken Cafferkey’s temperature and found it was was 38.2C – higher than the threshold of 37.5C that requires a consultant in infectious diseases to carry out an assessment.

In a written statement Ryan said: “I asked Pauline if she was feeling OK? She said she was feeling fine.

“I stood there in shock. It was like I was paralysed. I had no clear thought process.

“Ebola is such a horrible disease that every time you have a high temperature you worry, even when you know there’s no reason to.”

She also told the hearing that Wood had said something like: “I’m just going to write it down as 37.2 degrees’” so they could “get out of here and sort it out”.

The case against Ryan is expected to get underway tomorrow.

Cafferkey is due to give evidence, but it is not known whether this will be submitted in writing or if she will appear in person.

A statement from the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Hearings Service, which runs hearings involving doctors, said: “The tribunal will enquire into the allegation that, on 28 December 2014, whilst in the Public Health England screening area at Heathrow Airport, and after taking Ms A’s temperature, Dr Ryan’s actions were misleading and her conduct was dishonest.

“It is also alleged that, in a telephone call with Dr C on 2 January 2015, Dr Ryan’s conduct was misleading and also dishonest in that she intended to conceal her involvement in, and details of, the taking and recording of Ms A’s temperature on 28 December 2014.”

Cafferkey spent almost a month in isolation in hospital after being struck down with Ebola in December 2014 after working as part of a UK team in a treatment centre in Sierra Leone.

She appeared to make a full recovery and returned to work as a public health nurse in South Lanarkshire – but became critically ill in October 2015 after contracting viral meningitis as a result of the virus lingering.

She again recovered, but was admitted to hospital twice last year over concerns about complications relating to the virus.

After she was cleared of misconduct, Cafferkey spoke out about the impact the case had on her and criticised Public Health England (PHE), who were in charge of the "chaotic" airport screening process.

She said: “I went out there to help save lives but I came back to a system that failed. I was made a scapegoat for a catalogue of errors.

“It’s been awful being thought of as dishonest. It’s like my reputation had been destroyed, even though I knew I had done nothing wrong.”