Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — review hearing
No impairment found
What does “no impairment found” mean?
The regulator considered the case and found that the practitioner's fitness to practise was not currently impaired. No restrictions are imposed.
Concerning Allister Francks, doctor (General Medical Council 6128620).
Decision date: 29 August 2025 · Hearing started 29 August 2025
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal considered a misconduct case for Allister Francks. It recorded the decision on impairment as not impaired and found the doctor's fitness to practise was not impaired. The source PDF contains the tribunal's published reasons, with any private material redacted where required.
Charges
The MPTS PDF background states: 3. Dr Francks qualified in 2005 with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MB ChB) from the University of Glasgow. He was admitted as a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 2013. Dr Francks worked in a series of locum positions in general practice and then worked for a six-month locum period at Wellhall Medical Centre in Hamilton. He joined the partnership in that practice in 2015, where he remained working as a GP at the time of the events. 4. Dr Francks’ hearing took place in June 2025. The facts found proved can be summarised as follows: • between 1 February 2020 and 31 August 2023, Dr Francks issued a number of prescriptions to Patient A, with whom he had a close personal relationship, when he knew or should have known that he should not prescribe a controlled drug on a non- emergency basis, • he failed to seek independent clinical advice, make a record in Patient A’s medical records, or inform Patient A’s GP. • Dr Francks issued 23 prescriptions for XXX, two prescriptions for XXX and one prescription for XXX for Patient A. Record of Determinations – Medical Practitioners Tribunal MPT: Dr FRANCKS 3 • Further, between 1 April 2021 and 31 August 2023, Dr Francks self-prescribed medicines and failed to seek independent clinical advice, make a record of the medicines and update his GP of the treatment and progress. Dr Francks issued six prescriptions for XXX for himself. 5. The June 2025 Tribunal concluded that Dr Francks’ actions in prescribing for himself during a period of over two years, and in prescribing for Patient A over a period of three and a half years, fell far below the standards expected of a doctor and were in breach of Good Medical Practice (2013) (‘GMP’). The June 2025 Tribunal determined that Dr Francks’ actions brought the...
Findings
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal considered a misconduct case for Allister Francks. The detail page records impairment as not impaired and the tribunal found the doctor's fitness to practise was not impaired.
Source
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