Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — review hearing
No impairment found
What does “no impairment found” mean?
The regulator considered the case and found that the practitioner's fitness to practise was not currently impaired. No restrictions are imposed.
Concerning James Gilbert, doctor (General Medical Council 4717872).
Decision date: 2 September 2025 · Hearing started 2 September 2025
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal considered a misconduct case for James Gilbert. It recorded the decision on impairment as not impaired and found the doctor's fitness to practise was not impaired. The source PDF contains the tribunal's published reasons, with any private material redacted where required.
Charges
The MPTS PDF background states: 2. Mr Gilbert qualified in 2000 at the University of Southampton, completed postgraduate clinical training, then completed his Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons in 2003. Mr Gilbert completed his specialist training for general surgery in 2008. 3. Mr Gilbert worked as a Senior Registrar at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (‘the Trust’) between 1 October 2008 to 30 September 2009. He then worked as a Consultant Transplant and Vascular Access Surgeon at the Trust between 18 October 2010 and 20 May 2022, which ended due to termination of his employment. Mr Gilbert then took up employment at The New Foscote Hospital initially carrying out hernia repair surgery while working as a locum registrar in general surgery with Brighton University Hospitals from August 2022 until January 2023. From January 2023, Mr Gilbert was also appointed as Chief Medical Officer at The New Foscote & Royal Buckinghamshire Hospitals Group. 4. The facts found proved at Mr Gilbert’s 2024 substantive medical practitioners’ tribunal (‘MPT’) hearing related to his conduct between August 2009 and April 2022, towards colleagues at the Oxford Transplant Centre at Churchill Hospital which is part of the Trust. Overall, the conduct found proved can be summarised as that Mr Gilbert behaved inappropriately towards colleagues. The Tribunal considered an extensive list of allegations against Mr Gilbert concerning sexually motivated conduct, sexual harassment, harassment related to race, intimidation, racist conduct, and abuse of Mr Gilbert’s senior position (“the Allegation”) towards his colleagues Ms A, Ms E, Mr F, Ms G, Ms H, and Ms I. Mr Gilbert’s misconduct occurred in a professional setting and was referred to the GMC, in June 2022, after Mr Gilbert was dismissed in a local...
Findings
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal considered a misconduct case for James Gilbert. The detail page records impairment as not impaired and the tribunal found the doctor's fitness to practise was not impaired.
Source
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