Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — restoration hearing
Restoration to the register refused
The regulator’s term: restoration refused
What does “restoration to the register refused” mean?
A practitioner who had been struck off applied for restoration to the register and the application was refused. The original strike-off remains in effect.
Concerning Tim Kerr, doctor (General Medical Council 7477362).
Decision date: 1 September 2025 · Hearing started 26 August 2025 and ended 1 September 2025
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal considered a restoration case for Tim Kerr. It recorded the decision on impairment as not recorded and refused the doctor's restoration application. The source PDF contains the tribunal's published reasons, with any private material redacted where required.
Charges
The MPTS PDF background states: 5. Dr Kerr studied medicine at Newcastle upon Tyne University and graduated in 2015. On 22 June 2018, when he was 28 years old, he was sentenced to imprisonment for four criminal offences, namely, two counts of conspiring to supply a controlled drug of Class A, a third count of conspiring to supply a controlled drug of Class B and a fourth count of importing a controlled drug of Class A with intent to evade prohibition/restriction. 6. The offences had been committed between the periods 16 December 2015 to 12 April 2016. They were uncovered when a parcel was intercepted at Heathrow airport on 29 March 2016. It contained 220 small green tablets, each shaped like a grenade. The suspect, (later Dr Kerr’s co-defendant) was arrested entering the country on 11 April 2016. Dr Kerr was with him but was not arrested at that time. The drugs were later analysed and turned out to be MDMA (‘ecstasy’), valued as having a street value of £4,850. The police Record of Determinations – Medical Practitioners Tribunal MPT: Dr KERR 3 discovered that there were numerous phone messages between the co-defendant and Dr Kerr, discussing the sale and purchase of drugs. Dr Kerr was buying drugs off the internet and selling them to the co-defendant who would supply them, both in the UK and abroad. 7. On 17 March 2017, Dr Kerr was arrested at his workplace, the Freeman hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne (‘the hospital’). He was then interviewed by the police, made no comment to all their questions, and refused to give his PIN number to unlock his mobile phone. 8. Dr Kerr was charged with the drugs offences and pleaded guilty to them. A probation officer then interviewed Dr Kerr and wrote a pre-sentence report. Dr Kerr told him that his father had died when he was 11, and XXX. Dr Kerr said he felt that...
Findings
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal considered a restoration case for Tim Kerr. The detail page records impairment as not recorded and the tribunal refused the doctor's restoration application.
Source
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