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 Amy Eskander, doctor (General Medical Council 7034527).
Decision date: 20 August 2025 · Hearing started 19 August 2025 and ended 20 August 2025
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal considered a conviction / caution, misconduct case for Amy Eskander. It recorded the decision on impairment as impaired 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: 1. Dr Eskander was awarded her Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery qualification in 2003 from the University of Alexandria, Egypt. She came to the United Kingdom in 2009, where she completed the GMC Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board exam and was fully registered with the GMC in June 2010. She completed her Foundation training in August 2012; she was awarded membership of the Royal College of Physicians in March 2016 and completed her core medical training in December 2016. 2. After a period in non-training posts, in August 2019 Dr Eskander commenced specialty training in the Health Education England Southwest (HEE SW) as an ST3 in neurology. From August 2020, she elected to spend a year ‘out of programme’ as a Clinical Teaching Fellow and Honorary Lecturer in Neurology at St George’s, London. In October 2020 she commenced a Postgraduate Certificate in Healthcare and Biomedical Education (PGCert HBE) as part of her fellowship year. Dr Eskander returned to HEE SW as an ST4 in August 2021, and in December 2021 applied to Health Education England Thames Valley (‘HEE Thames Valley’) for a training post in neurology. The HEE Thames Valley local office is responsible for managing recruitment for neurology specialty training on behalf of all HEE regions. In April 2022 she was offered a place in the HEE London region which she took up in August 2022. She is currently an ST7 at King’s College Hospital. 3.
Findings
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal considered a conviction / caution, misconduct case for Amy Eskander. The detail page records impairment as impaired and the tribunal imposed a 12-month suspension.
Source
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