Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — review hearing
Suspended from practice — 6 months
The regulator’s term: suspension
What does “suspended from practice” mean?
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 Keith Wolverson, doctor (General Medical Council 4328696).
Decision date: 10 October 2025 · Hearing started 9 October 2025 and ended 10 October 2025
This sanction period has elapsed.
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal considered a misconduct case for Keith Wolverson. It recorded the decision on impairment as impaired and imposed a 6-month suspension. The source PDF contains the tribunal's published reasons, with any private material redacted where required.
Charges
The MPTS PDF background states: The 2022 Tribunal 3. Dr Wolverson qualified as a doctor in 1996 with a MBBS from the University of London. Dr Wolverson’s career included practice as a GP. 4. Dr Wolverson’s first hearing took place in March, June and October 2022 (‘the 2022 Tribunal’). At the time of the events Dr Wolverson was working as a locum at Urgent Care Centres (UCCs) in Derby and Stoke. At the outset of the hearing Dr Wolverson admitted that, on one or more occasion between January and April 2018, he had recorded inappropriate comments about the English language skills of several patients in their medical records. 5. The 2022 Tribunal found that, on 13 May 2018, Mrs Q and her child attended a consultation with Dr Wolverson, and he asked her to remove her face veil. Despite having been told by Mrs Q that she wore the veil for religious reasons and did not wish to remove it, Dr Wolverson had repeated his request several times, and ‘caused’ her to remove her veil. It found that Dr Wolverson dishonestly said in an email dated 25 May 2018 that the reasons for his actions during the consultation with Mrs Q were that she ‘spoke poor English’, he was ‘struggling to understand her ’ and he was ‘trying to look at her mouth movements to aid communication’. Record of Determinations – Medical Practitioners Tribunal MPT: Dr WOLVERSON 3 6. The 2022 Tribunal considered ‘that there was no evidence that Dr Wolverson had put patients at risk’. However, Dr Wolverson had breached fundamental tenets of the medical profession, ‘that a doctor should treat a patient fairly, with respect, and in a manner that justifies the trust put in them by patients and the public ’. It concluded that Dr Wolverson’s conduct had brought the profession into disrepute, because patients and other professionals were ‘likely to be...
Findings
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal considered a misconduct case for Keith Wolverson. The detail page records impairment as impaired and the tribunal imposed a 6-month suspension.
Source
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