Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — substantive hearing
Suspended from practice — 6 months
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 Rebecca Alia Lobo, doctor (General Medical Council 7771694).
Decision date: 6 August 2025 · Hearing started 21 July 2025 and ended 6 August 2025
This sanction period has elapsed.
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal considered a misconduct case for Rebecca Alia Lobo. It recorded the decision on impairment as impaired and imposed a 6-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 Lobo qualified with MBBS at D. Y. Patil University School of Medicine in India in 2009. Prior to the events which are the subject of the hearing, Dr Lobo worked in India for seven years as a Clinical Associate/Specialty doctor. She moved to the UK during the 2020 Covid Pandemic. At the time of the events Dr Lobo was practising as a Specialty doctor in the Emergency Department at East Suffolk & North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (‘the Trust’). 2. The matters that have led to Dr Lobo’s hearing arise from her conduct involving three colleagues at the Trust – Dr A, Dr B and Ms C – between 2020 and 2024. The matters came to light when Dr Lobo was found to have accessed Dr A and Dr B’s medical records whilst using another colleague’s computer login details on the ‘Evolve’ digital system. Concerns about Dr Lobo’s past behaviour towards Dr A and Dr B were subsequently raised during the Trust’s investigation into whether Dr Lobo had inappropriately accessed their medical records. It is also alleged that between February 2020 and December 2023 whilst working at the Trust, Dr Lobo behaved inappropriately towards Dr A and Dr B on more than one occasion and that her conduct amounted to harassment of them. 3. The chronological order of events is as follows. Dr Lobo first met Dr A, a consultant, in early 2020 when she began working at the Trust as a Specialty doctor and they worked alongside each other regularly. It is accepted that when Dr Lobo first joined the Trust, she and Dr A had a normal professional working relationship, and he supported her with her training and education. Initially the WhatsApp message exchange between them would concern patients and other work-related matters. Over time however, Dr Lobo began to send Dr A more personal messages about her private life...
Findings
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal considered a misconduct case for Rebecca Alia Lobo. The detail page records impairment as impaired and the tribunal imposed a 6-month suspension.
Source
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