Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — substantive hearing
Suspended from practice — 9 months
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 Anthony Shonde, doctor (General Medical Council 4199542).
Decision date: 5 August 2025 · Hearing started 21 July 2025 and ended 5 August 2025
This sanction period has elapsed.
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal considered a misconduct case for Anthony Shonde. It recorded the decision on impairment as impaired and imposed a 9-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 Shonde qualified in 1995 from the University of London and went on to specialise in internal medicine and gastroenterology. Since January 2009 he has been working as a Consultant Gastroenterologist at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (‘the Trust’) in Nottingham. At the time of the events that are the subject of this hearing, Dr Shonde was assisting an online pharmacy, Letter Box Meds (‘LBM’). Dr Shonde had become involved with LBM after being approached by one of its directors in 2019. He agreed to assist with the development of the clinical protocols for the online pharmacy without remuneration. 2. It is alleged that between February 2020 and April 2020 whilst working for LBM, Dr Shonde issued in excess of 1,000 prescriptions, and on one or more occasion, including for one or more of those prescriptions, failed to obtain an adequate clinical history of the patient prior to prescribing the medication by physically examining the patient, discussing the patient’s case with their GP, or accessing and reviewing the patient’s medical records. Further, it is also alleged that Dr Shonde inappropriately prescribed medication for a number of patients, which included prescribing opioids when there was insufficient evidence or clinical reason to do so. 3. The initial concerns were raised with the GMC on 27 April 2020 via a referral from Ms A, an inspector employed by the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC’). 4. Ms A had inspected LBM to ensure that they met the required standards for registered pharmacies. In summary, she found numerous failures, including that LBM did not have in place the correct risk assessment in relation to prescription of high-risk medicines. Following her findings, Ms A referred Dr Shonde to the GMC as he had been a prescriber for LBM...
Findings
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal considered a misconduct case for Anthony Shonde. The detail page records impairment as impaired and the tribunal imposed a 9-month suspension.
Source
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