Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — review hearing
MPTS review finds Dr Alexander Gates no longer impaired after 2021 stalking conviction
A Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service review has found that Dr Alexander Gates' fitness to practise is no longer impaired by his 2021 conviction for stalking, concluding he had developed full insight and posed no ongoing risk. Conditions imposed in 2024 will run to their expiry.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 5 June 2026 · Updated 7 July 2026
No impairment found
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The regulator considered the case and found that the practitioner's fitness to practise was not currently impaired. No restrictions are imposed.
Concerning Alexander Gates, doctor (General Medical Council 7136480).
Decision date: 5 June 2026 · Hearing started 5 June 2026
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Alexander Gates' fitness to practise is no longer impaired. At a review hearing, the tribunal considered his 2021 conviction for stalking, for which a 2024 tribunal had imposed conditions on his registration for 24 months. It found he had developed full insight, remediated his behaviour and posed no current risk to public protection, with no repetition in the eight years since the offending. The conditions will run to their expiry.
Charges
This was a review of a 2024 finding of impairment arising from Dr Gates' conviction for stalking. In June 2021 he was convicted at Bristol Crown Court of stalking a woman, Ms A, without fear, alarm or distress, after repeatedly contacting her and attending her home, workplace and family after she ended their relationship, and was sentenced to four months' imprisonment suspended for 24 months together with a restraining order. In 2024 a tribunal found his fitness to practise impaired by the conviction and imposed conditions on his registration for 24 months, directing a review.
Findings
At this review hearing the tribunal considered what had happened since 2024. It had regard to positive workplace reports confirming compliance with the conditions and no clinical concerns, Dr Gates' reflective statements and oral evidence, and his account of managing a relationship breakdown in 2025 without any recurrence of the offending behaviour. The tribunal found that Dr Gates had done what the 2024 tribunal asked, had developed full insight into the impact of his behaviour on Ms A, and had remediated his conduct, with no repetition in the eight years since the offending. It determined that he no longer poses a current and ongoing risk to public protection and that his fitness to practise is no longer impaired. The existing conditions were left to run to their expiry on 25 June 2026.
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