Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — substantive 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 Emmanuel Hakem, doctor (General Medical Council 7923091).
Decision date: 17 October 2025 · Hearing started 15 October 2025 and ended 17 October 2025
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal considered a conviction / caution case for Emmanuel Hakem. 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: 1. Dr Hakem graduated from the National Ribat University in Sudan in 2013, before completing an internship in Sudan. He moved to Ireland in 2015 and worked continuously in obstetrics and gynaecology at major Irish centres until 2022. Dr Hakem taught numerous medical students and published multiple articles in various peer reviewed journals. In October 2022, Dr Hakem entered the UK national training programme in obstetrics and gynaecology. He started as an ST3 at the Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust (‘the Trust’) from October 2022 to October 2023. Following his arrest for the offence of exposure, in October 2022 Dr Hakem was required by the Trust to have a chaperone for each of his patient encounters. 2. Dr Hakem became an ST5 following his first Annual Review of Competency Progression (ARCP) and was working towards CCT (Certificate of Completion of Training) in hopes of becoming a consultant. Dr Hakem moved from Torbay Hospital, Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust to Cornwall Hospital around October 2023 but did not start clinical work as an ST5 as he was charged by the police and subsequently excluded from clinical practice by the Trust. 3.
Findings
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal considered a conviction / caution case for Emmanuel Hakem. The detail page records impairment as impaired and the tribunal directed erasure from the medical register.
Source
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