Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — substantive hearing
Erasure (struck off the register)
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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 Masud Prodhan, doctor (General Medical Council 3691270).
Decision date: 12 November 2025 · Hearing started 24 March 2025 and ended 12 November 2025
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Masud Prodhan self-prescribed medication by issuing prescriptions to a close personal contact on seven occasions over nearly four years, then denied this in a formal NHS investigation witness statement and again in a subsequent interview. His practices also had multiple CQC regulatory failures. The tribunal found his fitness to practise impaired and, despite his admissions and personal circumstances, determined that his persistent dishonesty and limited insight made erasure from the Medical Register the only appropriate sanction. Dr Prodhan has lodged an appeal.
Charges
1. Between November 2015 and June 2019, inappropriately provided care to Patient A (a person with whom he had a close personal relationship) in a non-emergency situation, contrary to GMC guidance on prescribing and managing medicines, accessing Patient A's records and issuing prescriptions. 2. Failed to record clinical information justifying prescribing decisions. 3. Between November 2015 and June 2019, issued prescriptions to Patient A with the intention of using the prescribed medication himself, then on 11 March 2020 signed a witness statement in a formal NHS local performance investigation falsely stating the prescriptions were for Patient A's personal use, and repeated this lie in a video interview in November 2020. 4. Caused a staff member to leave due to his behaviour; contacted a staff member at 1am while she was on sick leave. 5. Multiple failings identified by a CQC inspection on 7 August 2019 (safe care, safeguarding, premises, governance, staffing) leading to cancellation of his registration as a service provider. 6. Concerns identified in a March 2020 Greater Manchester Combined Authority investigation into NHS services provided at his practices (record keeping, pathology results review, guidelines on home visits, prescribing, safeguarding, repeat prescriptions).
Findings
The tribunal found all charges proved (most admitted at the outset). Dr Prodhan self-prescribed medication using a close personal contact's NHS records on seven occasions over nearly four years, then dishonestly denied this in a formal NHS investigation witness statement and again in a subsequent video interview. His practices also had multiple CQC regulatory failures. The tribunal determined his fitness to practise was impaired by reason of misconduct and that his limited insight posed a risk of recurrence. Despite mitigating factors, the tribunal concluded that erasure was the only appropriate sanction, finding his conduct fundamentally incompatible with continued registration. An immediate order was imposed. Dr Prodhan has lodged an appeal.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
- Dr Prodhan admitted the entirety of the allegations and offered a sincere apology for his actions to Patient A, to the investigators he misled, to his colleagues and the profession, and to the public. - Dr Prodhan has experienced a number of stressful and difficult personal circumstances. - Dr Prodhan has no previous history of dishonesty or disciplinary findings against him. The events relating to misconduct go back to the period 2014 to 2019 (six to eleven years ago). There is no direct evidence of patient harm and no repeat of the behaviour.
Aggravating factors
- The dishonesty was covered up by the use of Patient A's medical records. Dishonest self-prescribing was repeated on seven occasions and maintained over a period of nearly four years. - The witness statement signed by Dr Prodhan on 11 March 2020 with a statement of truth was intended for use in a formal NHS local performance investigation. It had the effect of deliberately misleading NHS investigators. The lie was repeated eight months later in a further interview. - Disregard by Dr Prodhan of his professional obligations and standards. There were multiple breaches of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 and NHS services provided by Dr Prodhan.
Source
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