Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — review hearing
Struck off the register
The regulator’s term: erasure
What does “struck off the register” mean?
Being struck off (the regulator calls this "erasure") removes the practitioner from the register. They are no longer permitted to practise this profession in the UK. Erasure can be reviewed after a minimum of five years, but is otherwise indefinite.
Concerning Carlos Gomes De Sanches Damas, doctor (General Medical Council 7243661).
Decision date: 5 September 2025 · Hearing started 5 September 2025
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal considered a misconduct case for Carlos Gomes De Sanches Damas. It recorded the decision on impairment as impaired and directed erasure from the medical register. The source PDF contains the tribunal's published reasons, with any private material redacted where required.
Charges
The MPTS PDF background states: 3. Dr Gomes De Sanches Damas (‘Dr Damas’) qualified in 2002 from Universidade Nova de Lisboa. The 2023 Tribunal 4. Dr Damas’ case was first considered by a Medical Practitioner’s Tribunal (‘MPT’) in August 2023 (‘the 2023 Tribunal’). Prior to the events which were the subject of that hearing, he was working as a consultant general surgeon at Frimley Park Hospital. Dr Damas did not participate in that hearing. 5. The facts found proved at Dr Damas’ August 2023 hearing can be summarised as follows. On 25 September 2018, Dr Damas obtained a signed consent form from Patient A to Record of Determinations – Medical Practitioners Tribunal MPT: Dr GOMES DE SANCHES DAMAS 3 undergo a procedure by the ‘open’ approach (only), but Dr Damas commenced the procedure by the laparoscopic (or ‘keyhole’) approach, without obtaining further consent from his patient for ‘keyhole’ surgery. Further, Dr Damas amended the master copy of the consent form retrospectively, after the original version had been signed by Patient A, to indicate consent to a laparoscopic ‘keyhole’ approach. The amendment of the consent form was dishonest, as Dr Damas knew that Patient A had not consented to that approach. 6. The 2023 Tribunal further concluded that, while Dr Damas had written to the Trust to apologise about what happened, he had not accepted responsibility for undertaking surgery outside the scope of his patient’s consent. It determined that a finding of impairment was necessary to maintain public confidence in doctors, and to uphold professional standards and conduct for members of the medical profession. 7. The 2023 Tribunal suspended Dr Damas’ registration for a period of 12 months. It was satisfied that a 12-month suspension was necessary to mark the seriousness of Dr Damas’ misconduct and would...
Findings
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal considered a misconduct case for Carlos Gomes De Sanches Damas. The detail page records impairment as impaired and the tribunal directed erasure from the medical register.
Source
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