Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — review hearing
No impairment found
What does “no impairment found” mean?
The regulator considered the case and found that the practitioner's fitness to practise was not currently impaired. No restrictions are imposed.
Concerning Ramamoorthy Raguram, doctor (General Medical Council 5197065).
Decision date: 12 February 2026 · Hearing started 12 February 2026
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal decided that Dr Ramamoorthy Raguram's fitness to practise is no longer impaired and revoked the conditions on his registration. The conditions had been imposed in October 2024 after a tribunal found that he had been intoxicated at his GP practice in November 2022 and was later convicted of being in charge of a motor vehicle while over the alcohol limit. This review tribunal accepted that he had reflected deeply, engaged with support agencies and complied with his conditions, and concluded there was no real risk of repetition.
Charges
This was the second review of conditions imposed in October 2024 and varied in December 2024. The October 2024 Tribunal had found proved that on 3 November 2022, while working as a GP at Park Ley Medical Practice in Coventry, Dr Raguram was intoxicated in a consultation room, made attempts to log onto the practice computer, drove a short distance in the staff car park while intoxicated and continued to drink from a bottle of alcohol in his car. It also found that in or around March 2023 he failed to notify the GMC without delay that he had been charged with a criminal offence, and that on 18 September 2023 he was convicted of being in charge of a motor vehicle on a road after consuming so much alcohol that he was over the legal limit, was disqualified from driving for six months and fined £700. The October 2024 Tribunal found his fitness to practise impaired by reason of misconduct and conviction and imposed conditions for 15 months.
Findings
The Tribunal found that Dr Raguram had reflected deeply on his behaviour, recognised the seriousness of the November and December 2022 incidents and of his conviction, and had not sought to diminish his wrongdoing. He had engaged collaboratively with the GMC, NHS England and other agencies and had complied with the conditions imposed by the October 2024 Tribunal. The Tribunal concluded that the risk to public protection had meaningfully decreased and that there was no real risk of repetition of either the conviction or the misconduct. It considered that public confidence in the profession had already been upheld by the lengthy period of conditions previously imposed. It determined that Dr Raguram's fitness to practise was no longer impaired by reason of misconduct or conviction and revoked the existing order of conditions with immediate effect.
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