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 Alan Campbell, doctor (General Medical Council 7453209).
Decision date: 23 January 2026 · Hearing started 21 January 2026 and ended 23 January 2026
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Alan Campbell's fitness to practise was impaired by reason of a conviction at Downpatrick Crown Court for possession and making of indecent photographs of children. The tribunal found the offending spanned 2014 to 2022, involved 211 illegal images and videos including Category A material, and that he had extremely limited insight and had provided no evidence of remediation. The tribunal directed his erasure from the Medical Register.
Charges
Dr Campbell was convicted on 8 May 2025 at Downpatrick Crown Court of five counts of possession and six counts of making indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of a child or children. A total of 211 illegal images and videos were found across six electronic devices, including Category A, B and C material. He was sentenced to a Community Service Order of 75 hours, a Probation Order of two years, a Sexual Offences Prevention Order of five years, and became subject to notification requirements as a sex offender for five years.
Findings
The Tribunal found the conviction facts proved and determined that Dr Campbell's fitness to practise was impaired by reason of his conviction. It found the level of current and ongoing risk to public protection to be high, that Dr Campbell had extremely limited insight, had provided no evidence of remediation, and that there was a significant risk of repetition. The Tribunal directed erasure from the Medical Register as the only proportionate sanction and imposed an immediate order of suspension.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Aggravating factors
The offending was persistent and repeated, occurring over a prolonged period from 2014 to 2022. The volume and nature of the material was serious, including 50 Category A images and videos depicting severe abuse of children. Dr Campbell was a general practitioner with access to children during the period of offending. He provided no evidence of insight or remediation and did not engage with the regulatory proceedings.
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