Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — substantive 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 Nuri Attagour, doctor (General Medical Council 5204347).
Decision date: 24 April 2026 · Hearing started 13 April 2026 and ended 24 April 2026
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal considered a misconduct case for Nuri Attagour. 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: 1. Dr Attagour qualified in 1996 in Libya before moving to the UK in 1999. He completed the GMC Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board test in January 2001 after undertaking a number of clinical attachments. Dr Attagour became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in October 2003 and, after a number of senior house officer and registrar posts, undertook a Specialist Registrar rotation in Rehabilitation Medicine from March 2005 to August 2008. Dr Attagour undertook his first role as a consultant in August 2008 and was awarded his Certificate of Completion of Training in September 2009. Since 2008, Dr Attagour has held various locum consultant posts in rehabilitation and care of the elderly. Dr Attagour completed a MSc in Rehabilitation from Nottingham University in January 2014. 2. At the time of the events, Dr Attagour was practising as a locum consultant physician at the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary Hospital (‘the Hospital’), which is part of the Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (‘the Trust’). He had undertaken some ad hoc weekend shifts at the Hospital before starting in the locum role in April 2023. Dr Attagour currently works as a Consultant in neurorehabilitation with the Priory High Bank Specialist Neuro-Rehabilitation Centre, a permanent part-time post he has held since September 2025. He also has a part time locum post at Grantham General Hospital as a Consultant in Geriatric Medicine and Acute Frailty, a post he has held since October 2025. Record of Determinations – Medical Practitioners Tribunal MPT: Dr ATTAGOUR 3 3.
Findings
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal considered a misconduct case for Nuri Attagour. The detail page records impairment as impaired and the tribunal imposed a 3-month suspension.
Source
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