Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — review hearing
Practising with restrictions — 3 years
The regulator’s term: conditions on practice
What does “practising with restrictions” mean?
Conditions of practice allow the practitioner to keep working but only subject to specific restrictions — for example, supervision, limits on certain procedures, or required reporting to the regulator.
Concerning Kevin Newley, doctor (General Medical Council 2602064).
Decision date: 29 May 2025 · Hearing started 29 May 2025
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal considered a misconduct case for Kevin Newley. It recorded the decision on impairment as impaired and imposed conditions for 36 months. The source PDF contains the tribunal's published reasons, with any private material redacted where required.
Charges
The MPTS PDF background states: 3. Dr Newley qualified from Leicester University in 1982 and joined the Maples Surgery in Leicester in 1989. Until 2016 he worked as a sole practitioner with a patient list of approximately 2800. Dr Newley retired from practice on 31 January 2016 and the Maples Surgery was dissolved. Dr Newley also worked as a GP musculo-skeletal specialist at Leicester General Hospital between 2002 and 2010, undertaking his own clinic for one session per week. 4. Dr Newley was referred to the GMC by the Leicestershire and Lincolnshire Area Team of NHS England, following an investigation and the results of an external audit commissioned by the Primary Care Trust (‘PCT’). 5. The case related to Dr Newley’s care and treatment of eight patients in his capacity as their General Practitioner. The GMC offered Dr Newley undertakings, but he declined, and Record of Determinations – Medical Practitioners Tribunal MPT: Dr NEWLEY 3 was subsequently referred to a Medical Practitioners Tribunal hearing which began in 2017 and concluded on 25 January 2019 (‘the 2019 Tribunal’). The 2019 Tribunal 6. The 2019 Tribunal found that Dr Newley had made a number of failures to provide good care to seven patients. The issues raised included communication failures, problems with record keeping and failures to share information with colleagues. 7. The 2019 Tribunal found that Dr Newley’s failures in providing good clinical care breached the principles in paragraphs 3, 21, 22, 50 and 51 (2006 edition) and paragraphs 1, 15, 19 and 21 (2013 edition) of the GMC’s Good Medical Practice (GMP). The 2019 Tribunal determined that the extent and gravity of Dr Newley’s breaches of the principles of GMP were sufficiently serious that those parts of
Findings
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal considered a misconduct case for Kevin Newley. The detail page records impairment as impaired and the tribunal imposed conditions for 36 months.
Source
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