Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — substantive hearing
MPTS tribunal erases surgeon Dr Andrew Hopper after fraud and extreme pornography convictions
A Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service panel has erased vascular surgeon Dr Andrew Neil Hopper from the medical register after his conviction at Truro Crown Court for fraud totalling over £460,000 and possession of extreme pornographic images, for which he was jailed for 32 months.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 29 May 2026 · Updated 7 July 2026
Erasure (struck off the register)
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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 Andrew Neil Hopper, doctor (General Medical Council 4721550).
Decision date: 29 May 2026 · Hearing started 27 May 2026 and ended 29 May 2026
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Andrew Neil Hopper's fitness to practise was impaired by reason of his criminal conviction. In September 2025 he was convicted at Truro Crown Court of two counts of fraud by false representation, over insurance claims worth more than £460,000, and three counts of possession of extreme pornographic images, and was sentenced to 32 months in prison. The tribunal found he had shown no meaningful insight and erased his name from the medical register.
Charges
The allegation concerned Dr Hopper's criminal convictions. On 4 September 2025 at Truro Crown Court he was convicted, on his guilty pleas, of two counts of fraud by false representation and three counts of possession of extreme pornographic images portraying an act likely to result in serious injury to a person's private parts. He was sentenced to 32 months' imprisonment and a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for 10 years. The fraud involved insurance claims to two providers totalling over £460,000, in which he represented that his below-knee amputations were caused by illness rather than self-inflicted injury. He admitted the allegation, which was found proved.
Findings
The Tribunal found Dr Hopper's fitness to practise impaired by reason of his conviction. It determined that the possession of extreme pornography convictions fell at the extreme high end of the spectrum of seriousness and the dishonesty and fraud at the high end, noting the behaviour was premeditated and repeated. It found that Dr Hopper had shown no meaningful insight into the impact of his behaviour on public protection and no remediation, and that all three parts of public protection were engaged, presenting an extremely high risk.
Source
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