Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — substantive hearing
Suspended from practice — 9 months
The regulator’s term: suspension
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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 Dr Charles Wayawa Mafuta Kisolokele, doctor (General Medical Council 6100924).
Decision date: 19 November 2025 · Hearing started 10 November 2025 and ended 18 November 2025
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Wayawa had inappropriately prescribed medication to a community member and to himself on multiple occasions between 2022 and 2023 while working in an Urgent Care Centre. The tribunal found that Dr Wayawa had been dishonest, including by backdating prescriptions and falsifying records to conceal his actions. The tribunal found his fitness to practise impaired and imposed a nine-month suspension, directing a review hearing. The tribunal accepted that Dr Wayawa had acted out of a misguided attempt to help others rather than for personal gain, had made full admissions, and had shown genuine remorse and insight.
Charges
Dr Wayawa was alleged to have inappropriately prescribed medication on multiple occasions between June 2022 and August 2023 while working as a locum middle grade doctor at the Urgent Care Centre at Royal Preston and Chorley Hospital. The allegations included prescribing to Patient A in non-emergency situations without her being formally booked in, and prescribing to himself, involving dishonesty and concealment including backdated prescriptions.
Findings
The MPTS tribunal found Dr Wayawa's fitness to practise impaired by reason of misconduct. The tribunal found five separate dishonest acts of inappropriate prescribing over a 12-month period, including attempts to conceal prescribing activity by backdating prescriptions and providing false information. The tribunal concluded that suspension was the appropriate and proportionate sanction, noting that Dr Wayawa had acted with misguided intention of helping others without personal gain, had made full admissions, and had developed genuine insight. A 9-month suspension was imposed with a review hearing directed.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
No previous fitness to practise history; early and full admissions; sincere remorse and apology; genuine insight developed; no personal financial gain from dishonesty; engaged with GMC investigation; no repetition since discovery; positive testimonials from colleagues and Responsible Officer; extensive charitable and humanitarian work.
Aggravating factors
Misconduct repeated on five occasions within a 12-month period; deliberate attempts to conceal actions including backdating prescriptions and entering false clinical records data; dishonesty only ceased on discovery.
Source
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