Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — substantive hearing
Struck off the register
The regulator’s term: erasure
What does “struck off the register” mean?
Being struck off (the regulator calls this "erasure") removes the practitioner from the register. They are no longer permitted to practise this profession in the UK. Erasure can be reviewed after a minimum of five years, but is otherwise indefinite.
Concerning Ayesha Khan, doctor (General Medical Council 6066034).
Decision date: 18 November 2025 · Hearing started 11 August 2025 and ended 18 November 2025
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Ayesha Khan was convicted in October 2022 of dishonestly forging multiple prescriptions to obtain controlled drugs for herself, and of failing to disclose her prior conviction and a GMC warning when applying for employment. The tribunal determined that her fitness to practise was impaired by reason of misconduct and conviction. Due to the persistent nature of her dishonesty across several years and her lack of insight, the tribunal decided that erasure from the Medical Register was the only appropriate sanction.
Charges
Failure to disclose previous warning and conviction: On 22 June 2018, Dr Khan submitted a Model Declaration Form to Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust falsely answering no to questions about prior convictions and regulatory sanctions. Criminal conviction: On 28 October 2022 at West Yorkshire Magistrates Court, she was convicted of dishonestly making a false representation by producing prescriptions in the names of a fictitious patient and authorised in the name of another doctor, intending to obtain prescription drugs for herself (Fraud Act 2006 ss.1 and 2), and possession of a class C controlled drug. She was sentenced to a community order with curfew and electronic monitoring. IOT submissions: On 17 February 2022, Dr Khan submitted written IOT submissions describing a one off incident, knowing she had issued fraudulent prescriptions on multiple occasions.
Findings
The Tribunal found all charges proved. Dr Khan had been dishonest to employers and her regulator across multiple formats between 2018 and 2022. She failed to declare her prior conviction and GMC warning on employment forms, forged prescriptions on numerous occasions to obtain controlled drugs for herself, and made knowingly false submissions to the Interim Orders Tribunal. The Tribunal found her fitness to practise impaired by reason of both misconduct and conviction. At the sanction stage, the Tribunal determined that erasure was the only appropriate sanction. Dr Khan's name was erased from the Medical Register, with an immediate order of suspension imposed.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
The Tribunal concluded that there were no mitigating factors in this case. Dr Khan had made reference to personal circumstances and social isolation due to the COVID Pandemic in earlier IOT submissions, but the Tribunal had extremely limited evidence of these circumstances and their impact on her misconduct.
Aggravating factors
- Dr Khan's dishonesty was persistent and occurred in different formats over a lengthy period between 2018 and 2022. She was dishonest to employers and the regulator, made attempts to cover up her dishonesty, and continued to commit criminal offences after her initial arrest in October 2021. These acts occurred despite a prior GMC warning for undertaking roles for which she was not qualified. - Dr Khan's lack of insight: rather than demonstrating insight, her dishonest IOT submissions in February 2022 did the opposite. She went on to acquire further fraudulent prescriptions after the IOT hearing. She repeatedly failed to provide necessary information to Leeds Trust and initially failed to admit the extent of her fraudulent prescriptions during her police interview in October 2022.
Source
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