Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — review hearing
No impairment found
What does “no impairment found” mean?
The regulator considered the case and found that the practitioner's fitness to practise was not currently impaired. No restrictions are imposed.
Concerning Rebecca Alia Lobo, doctor (General Medical Council 7771694).
Decision date: 20 February 2026 · Hearing started 20 February 2026
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal decided that Dr Rebecca Alia Lobo's fitness to practise is no longer impaired and revoked the six-month suspension imposed in June 2025. The earlier tribunal had found that she harassed two colleagues at an Ipswich hospital between 2020 and 2023 and accessed their medical records without consent, including by using another colleague's computer login. This review tribunal accepted her written apology, reflections and remediation, found that she had developed significant insight, and concluded that the risk of repetition had substantially reduced.
Charges
This was a review of a six-month suspension imposed in June 2025. The 2025 Tribunal had found proved that between February 2020 and December 2023, while working as a Specialty Doctor in the Emergency Department at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, Dr Lobo behaved inappropriately towards two colleagues, Dr A and Dr B, on more than one occasion and that her conduct amounted to harassment of them. It was also found proved that on 8 July 2023 Dr Lobo accessed the medical records of Dr A and Dr B using a colleague's Evolve login details without that colleague's knowledge or permission, and that her own Evolve login had been used to access Dr A's records on 32 occasions and Dr B's records on 39 occasions between February 2021 and July 2022 without consent.
Findings
The Tribunal accepted that Dr Lobo had fully accepted the findings of the 2025 Tribunal, acknowledged her wrongdoing and provided a sincere written apology. It found that her reflections were genuine, sincere and meaningful, that she had undertaken relevant CPD and produced personal development plans, and that she had developed significant insight into the impact of her conduct. The Tribunal concluded that the risk of repetition identified by the 2025 Tribunal had significantly reduced and that there is no current risk to any of the three limbs of the overarching objective of public protection requiring restrictive action. It therefore determined that Dr Lobo's fitness to practise is no longer impaired by reason of misconduct, and revoked the suspension order with immediate effect.
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