Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — review hearing
Suspended from practice — 3 months
The regulator’s term: suspension
What does “suspended from practice” mean?
A suspension is a fixed-term pause on the right to practise. The practitioner cannot work in the regulated profession during the suspension. At the end of the period the suspension may be extended, replaced with another sanction, or lifted on review.
Concerning Sohier El-Neil, doctor (General Medical Council 4157384).
Decision date: 16 September 2025 · Hearing started 16 September 2025
This sanction period has elapsed.
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal considered a misconduct case for Sohier El-Neil. It recorded the decision on impairment as impaired and imposed a 3-month suspension. The source PDF contains the tribunal's published reasons, with any private material redacted where required.
Charges
The MPTS PDF background states: 2. Dr El-Neil qualified as a doctor in 1987 from the University of Zimbabwe and went on to specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology. She moved to the UK in 1990 and became a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologist in 1994. Following completion of her training, she took up a post as a Consultant Gynaecologist specialising in Urogynaecology and Uro-neurology in 2004 at University College Hospital and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London. 3. The initial concerns were raised by Patient A with the GMC via an online complaint form dated 22 March 2021. Patient A complained about the treatment she received from Dr El-Neil regarding the removal of an implanted Gynecare TVT Obturator System (‘the Mesh’). 4. In summary, on 23 October 2017 Dr El-Neil consulted with Patient A about symptoms related to the Mesh. Patient A complained that Dr El-Neil had led her to believe that all the Mesh could be removed in one operation. She also complained that at her post operative review she was informed by Dr El-Neil that all the Mesh had in fact been removed. In contrast, she learned several months later that further surgery would be required to remove all the Mesh. 5. A Medical Practitioners Tribunal (MPT) convened to consider Dr El-Neil’s case on 7 to 21 October 2024 (‘the 2024 Tribunal’). Dr El-Neil was present and represented. The 2024 Tribunal’s findings on facts related to two parts. The first related to the failure of Dr El-Neil to obtain informed consent for the surgical intervention from Patient A. The second related to Dr El-Neil’s dishonest representation to NHS Highland as to the nature of the surgery that had been performed. Record of Determinations – Medical Practitioners Tribunal MPT: Dr EL-NEIL 3 Failure to obtain informed consent...
Findings
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal considered a misconduct case for Sohier El-Neil. The detail page records impairment as impaired and the tribunal imposed a 3-month suspension.
Source
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