Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — review hearing
Practising with restrictions — 1 year
The regulator’s term: conditions on practice
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Concerning Tarun Arya, doctor (General Medical Council 4020826).
Decision date: 26 September 2025 · Hearing started 26 September 2025
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal considered a non-compliance case for Tarun Arya. It recorded the decision on impairment as not recorded and imposed conditions for 12 months. The source PDF contains the tribunal's published reasons, with any private material redacted where required.
Charges
The MPTS PDF background states: 3. The General Medical Council (‘GMC’) opened an investigation into Dr Arya’s fitness to practise following a referral from the Care Quality Commission (‘CQC’), dated 17 December 2020. These concerns arose following a CQC inspection at the Queens Bower Surgery (‘the Surgery’), where Dr Arya was a GP at the time. Through its inspection process the CQC identified clinical and non-clinical concerns about his practise. 4. On 9 November 2021, Dr Arya was directed under Rule 7(3) and Schedule 1 of the GMC Fitness to Practise Rules 2004 to undertake an assessment of his performance (‘the Direction’). 5. On 21 December 2021, Dr Arya’s representatives sent part 1 of the performance assessment portfolio to the GMC XXX. The GMC could not progress Dr Arya’s performance assessment while XXX. On 23 February 2022 and 21 April 2022, the GMC wrote to Dr Arya explaining it could consider non-compliance as a result of XXX. Record of Determinations Medical Practitioners Tribunal MPT: Dr ARYA 3 6. On 18 March 2022 and 8 June 2022, Dr Arya’s XXX. The GMC received Dr Arya’s agreement to proceed with the performance assessment, but XXX, with no indication of when he might be able to conduct the performance assessment. 7. Dr Arya was referred to a Medical Practitioners Tribunal in September 2022 (the 2022 Tribunal) for his failure to comply, in full, with the Direction XXX. The 2022 Tribunal 8. The 2022 Tribunal considered that whilst there was objective evidence of XXX, there was no estimated time-frame provided by which he would be able to comply with the Direction. It found that on that basis, there was no good reason for Dr Arya’s failure to comply. The 2022 Tribunal therefore concluded that non-compliance had been found. 9. The 2022 Tribunal noted that Dr Arya said that he would comply...
Findings
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal considered a non-compliance case for Tarun Arya. The detail page records impairment as not recorded and the tribunal imposed conditions for 12 months.
Source
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