Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — restoration hearing
Restoration to the register refused
The regulator’s term: restoration refused
What does “restoration to the register refused” mean?
A practitioner who had been struck off applied for restoration to the register and the application was refused. The original strike-off remains in effect.
Concerning Collen Nkomo, doctor (General Medical Council 6081972).
Decision date: 25 September 2025 · Hearing started 24 September 2025 and ended 25 September 2025
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal considered a restoration case for Collen Nkomo. It recorded the decision on impairment as not recorded and refused the doctor's restoration application. The source PDF contains the tribunal's published reasons, with any private material redacted where required.
Charges
The MPTS PDF background states: 4. Dr Nkomo qualified in 2002 from the University of Zimbabwe and subsequently moved to the UK and obtained UK citizenship. At the time of the events that led to Dr Nkomo’s erasure he was practising as a Locum General Practitioner (‘GP’) with a special interest in Paediatrics. 5. The circumstances that led to Dr Nkomo’s erasure were that on 26 October 2015 at Manchester and Salford Magistrates Court Dr Nkomo was convicted of having driven a vehicle and having been required to provide a specimen or specimens of breath for analysis in the course of an investigation into whether he had committed an offence, and failing without reasonable excuse to do so, contrary to section 7(6) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 and Schedule 2 to the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988; having driven a motor vehicle on a road otherwise than in accordance with a licence authorising him to drive a motor vehicle of that class, contrary to section 87(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 and Schedule 2 to the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988; and failing, without a reasonable excuse, to co-operate with a preliminary test in pursuance of a requirement imposed under section 6 of the Road Traffic Record of Determinations – Medical Practitioners Tribunal MPT: Dr NKOMO 3 Act 1988, contrary to section 6(6) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 and Schedule 2 to the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988. 6. Further, on 13 November 2015, Dr Nkomo was sentenced in relation to the above convictions to carry out unpaid work for 60 hours and was disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving licence for 2 years. Dr Nkomo failed to notify the GMC without delay that he had been charged with and convicted of the above criminal offences. 7. Additionally, on 30 May 2017 at Manchester, Minshull Street Crown Court, Dr Nkomo was convicted...
Findings
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal considered a restoration case for Collen Nkomo. The detail page records impairment as not recorded and the tribunal refused the doctor's restoration application.
Source
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