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 Vinesh Narayan, doctor (General Medical Council 5208737).
Decision date: 13 August 2025 · Hearing started 21 July 2025 and ended 13 August 2025
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal considered a misconduct case for Vinesh Narayan. 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: 2. Dr Narayan obtained MBBS in India in 1999. He then undertook work in a number of hospitals as a junior doctor in India before moving to the UK in 2002. Prior to the events which are the subject of the hearing Dr Narayan had joined the psychiatric training rotation in Manchester in August 2003 completing both Core and Higher specialist training and obtaining his Certicate of Completion of Training in December 2009. At the time of the alleged misconduct in
Findings
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal considered a misconduct case for Vinesh Narayan. The detail page records impairment as impaired and the tribunal imposed a 12-month suspension.
Source
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