Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — substantive hearing
Erasure (struck off the register)
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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 Sayed Talibi, doctor (General Medical Council 7280771).
Decision date: 8 August 2025 · Hearing started 6 August 2025 and ended 8 August 2025
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal considered a misconduct case for Sayed Talibi. 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: 2. Dr Talibi qualified in 2012 with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MB ChB). Following qualification, he completed his foundation medical training at the Queen Elizabeth, University Hospitals Birmingham (QE UHB) and at Royal Stoke University Hospital. Dr Talibi obtained a neurosurgery training number in early 2015 and started as a Speciality training Registrar (StR) at University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) from August 2015 for one year. Dr Talibi completed his Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh (MRCS Ed) in March 2016. He undertook further training at QE UHB until February 2021. Dr Record of Determinations – Medical Practitioners Tribunal MPT: Dr TALIBI 3 Talibi moved to UHCW in February 2021. He then took a career break from clinical medicine in February 2022, and he returned to his training position in August 2024. He is now undertaking full clinical responsibilities, after a staggered return to work. 3. The initial concerns were raised with the GMC on 26 October 2017, via self-referral from Dr Talibi. He confirmed XXX. He stated that Ms X had made a number of serious but ‘totally unfounded’ allegations against him which had resulted in a police investigation. He explained that the relationship had ended due to Ms X’s ‘unacceptable aggressive behaviour’. 4. In July 2018, the Police disclosed to the GMC that Dr Talibi had been arrested (two days before his self-referral to the GMC) ‘on suspicion of coercive and controlling behaviour and three allegations of rape’. During the course of the Police investigation a number of Dr Talibi’s electronic devices were seized and they were subsequently found to contain a number of images/photographs and documents which were disclosed to the GMC. 5.
Findings
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal considered a misconduct case for Sayed Talibi. The detail page records impairment as impaired and the tribunal directed erasure from the medical register.
Source
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