Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — review hearing
MPTS review keeps Dr Kesley Smith under conditions for 18 months over fraud conviction
A Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service review panel has found Dr Kesley Smith's fitness to practise remains impaired by his 2022 conviction for forging prescriptions, and imposed conditions on his registration for a further 18 months, citing a medium risk to public protection.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 3 June 2026 · Updated 7 July 2026
Conditions on practice (practising with restrictions) — 18 months
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Concerning Kesley Smith, doctor (General Medical Council 7528879).
Decision date: 3 June 2026 · Hearing started 2 June 2026 and ended 3 June 2026
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Kesley Smith's fitness to practise remained impaired by reason of his 2022 conviction for fraud and forgery, after he forged prescriptions for controlled drugs while working in 2021. At this review hearing the tribunal decided his insight was not yet complete and that a medium risk to the public remained. It extended conditions on his registration for a further 18 months, with a review before they end.
Charges
This was a review of conditions first imposed by a 2024 Medical Practitioners Tribunal. The underlying matter was Dr Smith's conviction, to which he had pleaded guilty at Nottingham Magistrates' Court, for fraud and forgery offences under the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981: between August and November 2021, while working in emergency medicine in Nottingham, he wrote 11 forged prescriptions for a scheduled drug, nine for patients he had treated and two for friends. He was sentenced in October 2022 to ten months' imprisonment, suspended for two years, and 100 hours of unpaid work.
Findings
The Tribunal found that Dr Smith's fitness to practise remained impaired by reason of his conviction and assessed a medium risk to public protection. It concluded he had not yet shown sufficient reflection on the seriousness of his conviction and had breached his conditions, including a prescribing condition, and noted a September 2025 workplace incident. It also recognised significant remediation, his continued professional training and progress, and positive supervisor reports.
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