Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — substantive hearing
Suspended from practice — 10 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 Narendra Dave, doctor (General Medical Council 2441278).
Decision date: 26 August 2025 · Hearing started 26 August 2025
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal considered a misconduct, determination of another regulator case for Narendra Dave. It recorded the decision on impairment as impaired and imposed a 10-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 Dave qualified with MB BS from the University of London in 1978. He has been on the GP register since 1989 and became a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 1991. He practiced in the UK and Crown Dependencies as a General Practitioner and held registration with a licence to practice until 14 June 2018. 2. Dr Dave relocated to Australia in 2016 where he became a fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and worked in various locations in Western Australia. He amended his registration with the GMC to registration without a licence to practise and held this registration from 14 June 2018 and 26 March 2020. 3. On 26 March 2020, Dr Dave’s registration automatically changed to registration with licence to practise. This change was granted to all GMC registered doctors under the emergency powers available to the Secretary of State for Health in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. At that time Dr Dave was still living and practicing as a GP in Western Australia. 4. On 18 December 2023, the State Administrative Tribunal of Western Australia (‘the SAT’) determined that Dr Dave had behaved in a way that constituted professional misconduct. On 76 occasions he contravened the Supervised Practice Conditions imposed upon his registration on 22 January 2020 by the Medical Board of Australia. In the period 15 February 2021 to 31 October 2021, he failed to provide complete and accurate information to the Medical Board of Australia. Record of Determinations – Medical Practitioners Tribunal MPT: Dr DAVE 3 5. On 18 December 2023, the SAT also determined to reprimand Dr Dave, to suspend his registration for 12 months and to impose conditions for 12 months following the conclusion of the period of suspension. 6. Dr Dave returned to the UK in...
Findings
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal considered a misconduct, determination of another regulator case for Narendra Dave. The detail page records impairment as impaired and the tribunal imposed a 10-month suspension.
Source
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