Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — substantive hearing
Suspended from practice — 6 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 Satnam Lidder, doctor (General Medical Council 5208314).
Decision date: 4 June 2025 · Hearing started 27 May 2025 and ended 4 June 2025
This sanction period has elapsed.
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal considered a misconduct case for Satnam Lidder. It recorded the decision on impairment as impaired and imposed a 6-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 Lidder qualified in 2001 at Universita Palackeho. At the time of the events Dr Lidder was practising as a Consultant at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (‘the Trust’) in Acute Medicine, and leading the Trust’s Hypertension service. He left the Trust in October 2023. Dr Lidder is currently practising as a Locum Consultant Physician at the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust in Nuneaton. 2.
Findings
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal considered a misconduct case for Satnam Lidder. The detail page records impairment as impaired and the tribunal imposed a 6-month suspension.
Source
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