Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — review hearing
Practising with restrictions — 9 months
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 Alexandra Kennard, doctor (General Medical Council 7051197).
Decision date: 26 September 2025 · Hearing started 26 September 2025
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal considered a misconduct, conviction / caution case for Alexandra Kennard. It recorded the decision on impairment as impaired and imposed conditions for 9 months. The source PDF contains the tribunal's published reasons, with any private material redacted where required.
Charges
The MPTS PDF background states: 4. Dr Kennard qualified in 1998 from Ivano-Frankovsk State Medical Academy, Ukraine. She practised as a Senior House Officer (‘SHO’) in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Ivano- Record of Determinations – Medical Practitioners Tribunal MPT: Dr KENNARD 3 Frankivsk Regional Psychiatric Hospital from 1999 to 2003. She transitioned to Adult Psychiatry in April 2003, working as a middle grade doctor until her move to the UK in 2005. 5. Dr Kennard joined a Specialty Training Programme in Forensic Psychiatry with Health Education England - Wessex (‘HEEW’) in February 2019 and she undertook her clinical training in forensic psychiatry with Southern Health NHSFT (‘Southern Health’). Following the completion of both Dr Kennard’s educational and clinical training on 1 June 2022, and after a short break, Dr Kennard worked in locum posts as a Consultant Psychiatrist in the South of England until 31 March 2023. The 2024 Tribunal 6. At the outset of Dr Kennard’s hearing, which took place from November 2024 to March 2025 (the 2024 Tribunal), she admitted various paragraphs and subparagraphs of
Findings
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal considered a misconduct, conviction / caution case for Alexandra Kennard. The detail page records impairment as impaired and the tribunal imposed conditions for 9 months.
Source
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