Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — review hearing
Practising with restrictions — 2 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 Frederick Kanyike, doctor (General Medical Council 3374847).
Decision date: 20 October 2025 · Hearing started 20 October 2025
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal considered a performance case for Frederick Kanyike. It recorded the decision on impairment as impaired and imposed conditions for 24 months. The source PDF contains the tribunal's published reasons, with any private material redacted where required.
Charges
The MPTS PDF background states: 2. A Medical Practitioners Tribunal hearing took place between 15 and 21 March 2023 (‘the March 2023 Tribunal’). An order of conditions was imposed for 30 months, and this review hearing is tasked with considering whether Dr Kanyike is able to resume unrestricted practice or not. 3. Dr Kanyike qualified in 1974 from Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. He has been on the General Medical Council (GMC) specialist register as a haematologist since 4 November 1996. Dr Kanyike’s most recent permanent appointment was from 2009 to 2016 when he was employed as a Consultant Haematologist at Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley & South Ribble District General Hospital. He was also the head of department for a period of time during this employment. Thereafter, following his retirement in 2016, Dr Kanyike worked on a locum basis. He first practised as a Locum Consultant Haematologist at Tameside General Hospital, Ashton-Under-Lyne, and Record of Determinations – Medical Practitioners Tribunal MPT: Dr KANYIKE 3 then at Royal Alexandra Hospital (‘the Hospital’), Paisley (part of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde) from 2018. 4. On 26 July 2018 Dr Kanyike agreed undertakings with the GMC. The undertakings included the requirement to have a workplace reporter, to have a personal development plan (PDP), and to be supervised in all of his posts by a clinical supervisor. On 29 April 2021 Dr Kanyike was invited, by the GMC, to take part in an assurance assessment (the Assessment). An assurance assessment can be directed by the GMC to provide independent assurance of a doctor’s fitness to return to unrestricted practice. 5. The Assessment was conducted between 14 and 16 November 2021. The Assessment included an initial interview with Dr Kanyike to gain a greater understanding of the context of...
Findings
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal considered a performance case for Frederick Kanyike. The detail page records impairment as impaired and the tribunal imposed conditions for 24 months.
Source
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