Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — review hearing
Struck off the register
The regulator’s term: erasure
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 Dharmesh Shah, doctor (General Medical Council 3664069).
Decision date: 7 October 2025 · Hearing started 6 October 2025 and ended 7 October 2025
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal considered a misconduct case for Dharmesh Shah. 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 Shah qualified as a doctor from the University of Leeds in 1992 and, prior to the events which were the subject of his Medical Practitioners Tribunal (MPT) hearing in 2018, he worked as a General Practitioner (‘GP’) partner at the Brentfield Medical Centre for 15 years. Dr Shah stopped working as a GP in 2011 but returned to work in 2014 at The Old Courthouse Surgery (‘the Surgery’) in Barnet as part of the GP Returner’s Scheme. He had worked in this role for approximately three to four months prior to the events which led to the 2018 hearing. 4. There is a lengthy history to the case and a summary of the key issues is set out below. The 2018 Tribunal 5. At the initial MPT hearing which concluded in June 2018 (‘the 2018 Tribunal’), Dr Shah admitted all factual paragraphs of
Findings
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal considered a misconduct case for Dharmesh Shah. The detail page records impairment as impaired and the tribunal directed erasure from the medical register.
Source
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