Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — review hearing
MPTS review finds Dr Helen Eisenhauer no longer impaired, revokes records-falsification suspension
A Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service review panel has found that GP Dr Helen Eisenhauer is no longer impaired and revoked her five-month suspension, after a 2025 tribunal found she dishonestly booked false patient appointments and falsified a patient's records during a childcare crisis.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 15 May 2026 · Updated 8 July 2026
No impairment found
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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 Helen Eisenhauer, doctor (General Medical Council 7420494).
Decision date: 15 May 2026 · Hearing started 15 May 2026
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Helen Eisenhauer's fitness to practise is no longer impaired by reason of misconduct. In 2025 a tribunal found she had dishonestly booked false patient appointments and made a false entry in a patient's records during a childcare crisis, and suspended her for five months. At this review, the tribunal decided she had developed significant insight and remediated her misconduct, and revoked the suspension with immediate effect.
Charges
The 2025 Tribunal found that between 17 and 19 July 2024, while working as a salaried GP at Stenhouse Medical Centre, Dr Eisenhauer dishonestly booked face-to-face appointments for Patient A and then Patient B when such appointments were not required and were not genuine, knowing she had already had telephone consultations with both that morning. On 19 July 2024, when challenged by a colleague, she accessed Patient B's records and made a false retrospective entry stating she had examined the patient. Her stated motivation was a childcare crisis. The 2025 Tribunal found this dishonest course of conduct put patients at risk and amounted to misconduct.
Findings
At this review hearing the Tribunal found that Dr Eisenhauer had developed significant insight and had genuinely and meaningfully remediated her misconduct, having undertaken relevant CPD on record keeping, stress management, professional ethics and the duty of candour, produced detailed reflections, engaged voluntarily in a peer-support programme, and re-engaged with her practice about a monitored return to work. It concluded that the risk of repetition identified in 2025 had significantly reduced, such that there was no current risk to any of the three limbs of public protection, that the five-month suspension had been sufficient, and that her fitness to practise is no longer impaired. The suspension order was revoked with immediate effect.
Source
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