Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — substantive hearing
Suspended from practice — 1 year
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 Sunita Khambra, doctor (General Medical Council 6119124).
Decision date: 10 June 2025 · Hearing started 10 June 2025
This sanction period has elapsed.
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal considered a non-compliance case for Sunita Khambra. It recorded the decision on impairment as not recorded and imposed a 12-month suspension. The source PDF contains the tribunal's published reasons, with any private material redacted where required.
Charges
The MPTS PDF background states: 2. Dr Khambra qualified at the University of Delhi in 1988. She first registered with the GMC in 2005, working in Birmingham between 2005 and 2007. Dr Khambra practised in India between 2007 and 2024. In April 2024, Dr Khambra commenced a role as a Consultant Anaesthetist at The Northern Care Alliance (‘the Trust’). Dr Khambra resigned from this role in August 2024. 3. On 14 January 2025, the Trust submitted an online referral form from NCA to the GMC. This referral detailed that, while employed by the Trust, Dr Khambra had failed to demonstrate the competencies required for independent consultant practice in anaesthesia and had required ongoing supervised practice. It stated that 33 specific concerns had been raised by a range of colleagues, which Dr Khambra had denied, before resigning from her role to seek employment elsewhere. The referral was raised after the Trust was contacted for an employment reference, and concerns were raised that Dr Khambra had not been transparent about the issues she had whilst working at the Trust. 4. On 30 January 2025, the GMC sent a letter to Dr Khambra via email, to inform her that an Assistant Registrar had issued a direction for her to undergo a Performance Assessment (‘PA’) and that failure to comply with the direction might result in her case being Record of Determinations Medical Practitioners Tribunal MPT: Dr KHAMBRA 3 referred to a Medical Practitioners Tribunal (MPT) to consider her non-compliance. Dr Khambra responded to the GMC email on the same day, disagreeing with the concerns raised by the Trust, and stating that she intended to relinquish her GMC licence to practise. 5. On 7 February 2025, Dr Khambra telephoned the GMC and stated that she did not agree to the PA and intended to leave the UK. An email was sent to her...
Findings
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal considered a non-compliance case for Sunita Khambra. The detail page records impairment as not recorded and the tribunal imposed a 12-month suspension.
Source
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