Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — substantive hearing
Suspended from practice — 1 year
The regulator’s term: suspension
What does “suspended from practice” mean?
A suspension is a fixed-term pause on the right to practise. The practitioner cannot work in the regulated profession during the suspension. At the end of the period the suspension may be extended, replaced with another sanction, or lifted on review.
Concerning Mary Anne McCloskey, doctor (General Medical Council 2725923).
Decision date: 31 October 2025 · Hearing started 27 October 2025 and ended 31 October 2025
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal considered a misconduct, conviction / caution case for Mary Anne McCloskey. It recorded the decision on impairment as impaired and imposed a 12-month suspension. The source PDF contains the tribunal's published reasons, with any private material redacted where required.
Charges
The MPTS PDF background states: 1. Dr McCloskey qualified in 1981 at the National University of Ireland and then practised as a General Practitioner (GP) in Derry, Northern Ireland. Dr McCloskey’s name was suspended from the medical register after her fitness to practise was found to be impaired in October 2023 by reason of conviction and misconduct in 2021. Two Review Tribunals in 2024 and 2025 imposed further suspension orders. This hearing 2.
Findings
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal considered a misconduct, conviction / caution case for Mary Anne McCloskey. The detail page records impairment as impaired and the tribunal imposed a 12-month suspension.
Source
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