Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — review hearing
Practising with restrictions — 1 year
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Concerning David Adams, doctor (General Medical Council 6145745).
Decision date: 30 May 2025 · Hearing started 30 May 2025
This sanction period has elapsed.
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal considered a misconduct case for David Adams. It recorded the decision on impairment as impaired and imposed conditions for 12 months. The source PDF contains the tribunal's published reasons, with any private material redacted where required.
Charges
The MPTS PDF background states: to Dr Adams’ case, which was first considered by a Medical Practitioners Tribunal in March 2022 in regard to a conviction for drink driving, dishonest answers on an application for restoration, failure to disclose the conviction to the GMC, XXX. 2. Dr Adams qualified in 2006 from the University of Bristol. He worked from 2006 to 2012 at Bristol Royal Infirmary, and in 2012 was working as a Senior Registrar in the Emergency Department. In 2014 he worked as CEO of Ranvier Health Ltd (a start-up company developing a diagnostic tool to assist in the diagnosis and management of depression). On 25 March 2015 Dr Adams was erased from the medical register due to non-payment of the annual retention fee but was restored to the medical register on 17 December 2019. 3. The 2022 Tribunal found that Dr Adams had been convicted of a criminal offence on 10 October 2019. It also determined that Dr Adams had acted dishonestly by failing to declare his criminal conviction during his application to the GMC to restore his name to the medical register. It also found that he had failed to inform the GMC of his conviction after being restored to the medical register on 17 December 2019. 4. XXX 5. The 2022 Tribunal accepted that Dr Adams had shown genuine remorse for his drink driving, had served his sentence and shown insight, such that he was not impaired by his conviction. 6. The 2022 Tribunal found that his dishonesty and failure to declare or otherwise notify the GMC of his conviction amounted to serious misconduct. Having found that Dr Adams had shown only partial insight into his dishonesty, a finding was made that his fitness to practise was impaired by misconduct. 7. XXX 8. The 2022 Tribunal determined to suspend Dr Adams’ registration for a period of 12 months and directed a review...
Findings
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal considered a misconduct case for David Adams. The detail page records impairment as impaired and the tribunal imposed conditions for 12 months.
Source
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