Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — review hearing
Suspended from practice — 1 year
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 Simon Moran, doctor (General Medical Council 3115204).
Decision date: 22 May 2025 · Hearing started 22 May 2025
This sanction period has elapsed.
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal considered a misconduct case for Simon Moran. It recorded the decision on impairment as impaired and imposed a 12-month suspension. The source PDF contains the tribunal's published reasons, with any private material redacted where required.
Charges
The MPTS PDF background states: 3. Dr Moran qualified in 1986 at the University of London. In 1991, he became a partner at the Pelham Medical Practice (‘the Practice’) in Gravesend, Kent. He retired from the Practice in August 2020. The 2024 Tribunal 4. Dr Moran’s case was first heard at a Medical Practitioners Tribunal hearing which took place between 1 and 8 May 2024 (‘the 2024 Tribunal’). 5. The 2024 Tribunal found proved that, prior to his retirement, Dr Moran had taken one or more prescription pads which were personalised to Dr A. It found that Dr Moran had inappropriately prescribed medications to himself and a person with whom he had a close personal relationship and had presented the prescriptions to a pharmacy with a view to having the medications dispensed. The 2024 Tribunal found proved that Dr Moran had inappropriately used the prescription pads issued to Dr A to issue the prescriptions, when he knew that the prescription pad did not belong to him. Further, it found that Dr Moran knew Record of Determinations – Medical Practitioners Tribunal MPT: DR MORAN 3 that he should not have been using the prescription pad to write prescriptions, and that Dr A had not given him permission to use the prescription pad. 6. The 2024 Tribunal found that Dr Moran had used the prescription pad in the name of Dr A so as not to arouse suspicion by the patients and prescriber having the same surname. It found that Dr Moran did so in a premeditated manner in order to deceive and had therefore acted dishonestly. 7. Having made its determination on the Facts, the 2024 Tribunal went onto consider whether Dr Moran’s actions amounted to misconduct. The 2024 Tribunal took into consideration that there had been a clear acknowledgment from Dr Moran in his response to the NHSCFA that he knew the prescription pad he...
Findings
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal considered a misconduct case for Simon Moran. The detail page records impairment as impaired and the tribunal imposed a 12-month suspension.
Source
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