Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — review hearing
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 Keyur Buch, doctor (General Medical Council 4160896).
Decision date: 22 May 2025 · Hearing started 22 May 2025
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal considered a misconduct case for Keyur Buch. It recorded the decision on impairment as impaired and directed erasure from the medical register. The source PDF contains the tribunal's published reasons, with any private material redacted where required.
Charges
The MPTS PDF background states: 3. Dr Buch qualified in India in 1987 and registered with the GMC in February 1995. In April 2000, Dr Buch joined the Specialist Register as a Consultant in Trauma and Orthopaedic surgery. Dr Buch subsequently left the UK in 2016 and has not held a licence to practise since January 2018. The 2023 Tribunal Hearing 4. The facts found proved at Dr Buch’s hearing, which took place in December 2023, relate to posts on the social media platform Twitter. Dr Buch was not present or represented at the hearing but did provide written evidence by email and testimonials. 5. The 2023 Tribunal found proved that in or around September 2022, Dr Buch had posted inappropriate comments on social media from his Twitter account whilst representing himself as a doctor. It found proved that these comments were motivated by racial/religious Record of Determinations – Medical Practitioners Tribunal MPT: Dr BUCH 3 hostility, demonstrated hostility based on race/religion and encouraged racial/religious hostility. 6. The 2023 Tribunal noted that Dr Buch had a significant number of followers on Twitter and therefore had a large audience for his social media posts. It found that Dr Buch's social media posts had been motivated by an opposition to the religion of Islam and the Pakistani race and were for that reason hostile. The Tribunal also found that the posts had encouraged hostility towards Islam, Muslims and Pakistanis. 7. The 2023 Tribunal was mindful that at least one member of the medical profession had found Dr Buch's social media posts so offensive as to prompt a complaint to the GMC. This demonstrated to the 2023 Tribunal that these posts were capable of being found deplorable by other members of the profession. 8. The 2023 Tribunal determined that Dr Buch's actions amounted to misconduct...
Findings
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal considered a misconduct case for Keyur Buch. The detail page records impairment as impaired and the tribunal directed erasure from the medical register.
Source
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