Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — restoration hearing
Restoration to the register refused
The regulator’s term: restoration refused
What does “restoration to the register refused” mean?
A practitioner who had been struck off applied for restoration to the register and the application was refused. The original strike-off remains in effect.
Concerning Brian Harris, doctor (General Medical Council 0333766).
Decision date: 18 July 2025 · Hearing started 16 July 2025 and ended 18 July 2025
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal considered a restoration case for Brian Harris. It recorded the decision on impairment as not recorded and refused the doctor's restoration application. The source PDF contains the tribunal's published reasons, with any private material redacted where required.
Charges
The MPTS PDF background states: 4. Dr Harris qualified in 1964 from the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He worked as a Senior House Officer in Westminster Hospital, completed general practice training and registrar training, prior to becoming a consultant psychiatrist in general adult psychiatry in 1980. Dr Harris held the post of Medical Director for the Cardiff Community Trust from 1996 to 2000, initially retiring but returning to work after a short period at Powys Teaching Health Board, until 2005. He worked as a consultant at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital from 2005, retiring from that post in 2011 but continuing to undertake private and locum work for Aneurin Bevan Health Board. Dr Harris has also held a number of lecturing positions during his career in the field of perinatal psychiatry. The 2017 Tribunal Record of Determinations – Medical Practitioners Tribunal MPT: Dr HARRIS 3 5. The circumstances that led to Dr Harris’ erasure were considered at a hearing before a Medical Practitioners Tribunal (‘MPT’) which concluded in December 2017 (‘the 2017 Tribunal’), though the determination did not take effect until the expiry of the appeal period in early 2018. 6. Those circumstances can be summarised as Dr Harris having carried out 14 private consultations with five different patients between 10 December 2013 and 20 December 2014 whilst his registration was subject to an interim order of suspension, following an MPTS Interim Orders Panel (‘IOP’) hearing in November 2013. The 2017 Tribunal also found that Dr Harris failed to disclose the suspension to his patients when he knew, or ought to have known, that the interim order was in place, and that his conduct was misleading and dishonest. 7. The initial concerns were raised with the General Medical Council (‘GMC’) on 29 September 2015 by a doctor...
Findings
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal considered a restoration case for Brian Harris. The detail page records impairment as not recorded and the tribunal refused the doctor's restoration application.
Source
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