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Why UK doctors are struck off
This analysis groups published doctor erasure determinations into broad reason categories using the regulator-described charges, findings, and summaries indexed by MedicWatch. The figures describe MedicWatch's indexed corpus of published regulator determinations, not all healthcare misconduct.
46
published erasure determinations analysed
46
matched at least one specific reason category
12 May 2025
earliest decision date in this view
10 April 2026
latest decision date in this view
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Categorised reasons in published erasure decisions
Records
29 of 46
63%
Criminal conviction
24 of 46
52.2%
Clinical care
20 of 46
43.5%
Sexual misconduct
13 of 46
28.3%
Workplace conduct
13 of 46
28.3%
Consent and dignity
11 of 46
23.9%
Dishonesty
8 of 46
17.4%
Patient safety
8 of 46
17.4%
Medicines and drugs
7 of 46
15.2%
Health and substance
6 of 46
13%
Non-engagement
3 of 46
6.5%
Category table
| Category | Count | Share | What this includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Records, paperwork, and administration | 29 | 63% | Findings involving record keeping, notes, paperwork, documentation, or administrative compliance. |
| Criminal conviction or caution | 24 | 52.2% | Findings where the published determination refers to a criminal conviction, caution, court sentence, or criminal offence. |
| Clinical care and competence | 20 | 43.5% | Findings involving clinical care, treatment, diagnosis, competence, performance, or professional skill. |
| Sexual misconduct and boundaries | 13 | 28.3% | Regulator-described findings involving sexual misconduct, sexualised behaviour, or professional-boundary violations. |
| Workplace conduct and colleagues | 13 | 28.3% | Findings involving colleagues, workplace behaviour, bullying, harassment, or employer-related conduct. |
| Communication, consent, and dignity | 11 | 23.9% | Findings involving consent, communication, dignity, confidentiality, or patient information. |
| Dishonesty and false records | 8 | 17.4% | Findings involving dishonesty, fraud, forged documents, false statements, or misleading records. |
| Patient safety and safeguarding | 8 | 17.4% | Findings involving patient safety, safeguarding, vulnerable people, child protection, or risk of harm. |
| Medicines, prescribing, and drugs | 7 | 15.2% | Findings involving prescribing, medicines management, controlled drugs, medication errors, or drug misuse. |
| Health, alcohol, or substance concerns | 6 | 13% | Findings involving health concerns, alcohol, substance misuse, or health-related impairment. |
| Non-engagement with the regulator | 3 | 6.5% | Findings involving failure to engage, non-compliance, breach of conditions, or failure to cooperate with the regulator. |
Example source-backed determinations
Records, paperwork, and administration
12 November 2025Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Masud Prodhan self-prescribed medication by issuing prescriptions to a close personal contact on seven occasions over nearly four years, then denied this in a formal NHS investigation witness statement and again in a subsequent interview. His practices also had multiple CQC regulatory failures. The tribunal found his fitness to practise impaired and, despite his admissions and personal circumstances, determined that his persistent dishonesty and limited insight made erasure from the Medical Register the only appropriate sanction. Dr Prodhan has lodged an appeal.
31 October 2025Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
The MPTS tribunal considered a misconduct, conviction / caution case for Olubunmi Adeagbo-Sheikh. 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.
17 October 2025Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
The MPTS tribunal considered a conviction / caution case for Emmanuel Hakem. 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.
Criminal conviction or caution
23 March 2026Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Jonathon Dean, an anaesthetic trainee, injected a woman with anaesthetic drugs in her bedroom in December 2018 for sexual purposes, without the equipment to monitor her safely. He also admitted attending two London hospitals against instructions and was later convicted at Cambridge Crown Court of nine counts of theft and one of possessing a Class A drug, receiving 25 months in prison. The tribunal directed that his name be erased from the medical register.
10 March 2026Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Baraa Almasri's fitness to practise was impaired by reason of misconduct. It found that, between January 2019 and December 2020, he exchanged WhatsApp messages with a man later sentenced to life imprisonment for grievous bodily harm offences, and that his messages were capable of encouraging or assisting those offences. The tribunal also found that he knew the activities were illegal, failed to inform any authority, and refused to give the police access to his devices. It directed that his name be erased from the medical register.
25 February 2026Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Ju Young Um's fitness to practise was impaired by reason of his conviction for 23 voyeurism offences in Glasgow in April 2025, for which he was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment with a 9-month extended licence period and placed on the Sex Offenders' Register for 10 years. The conviction concerned covert recordings of 28 victims in his home and in hospital staff accommodation between 2020 and 2023. The tribunal directed that his name be erased from the medical register and imposed an immediate order of suspension.
Clinical care and competence
23 March 2026Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Jonathon Dean, an anaesthetic trainee, injected a woman with anaesthetic drugs in her bedroom in December 2018 for sexual purposes, without the equipment to monitor her safely. He also admitted attending two London hospitals against instructions and was later convicted at Cambridge Crown Court of nine counts of theft and one of possessing a Class A drug, receiving 25 months in prison. The tribunal directed that his name be erased from the medical register.
27 January 2026Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Saheb Peer Shabaz Khalander sexually harassed a junior colleague, Ms A, on 31 May 2022 by touching her thigh in a sexually motivated manner while she sought his clinical advice. The tribunal found his conduct lay at the high end of the spectrum of seriousness and that he had demonstrated no meaningful insight or remediation. The tribunal directed his erasure from the Medical Register and imposed an immediate suspension order.
26 November 2025Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Davis was convicted on 14 December 2023 at Manchester Crown Court of indecent assault and assault by penetration against two female patients during consultations in 1995 and 2006. He was sentenced to 8 years' imprisonment. The tribunal found no insight or remediation, assessed the risk to public protection as high, and determined erasure was the only appropriate sanction. An immediate order was imposed.
Sexual misconduct and boundaries
23 March 2026Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Jonathon Dean, an anaesthetic trainee, injected a woman with anaesthetic drugs in her bedroom in December 2018 for sexual purposes, without the equipment to monitor her safely. He also admitted attending two London hospitals against instructions and was later convicted at Cambridge Crown Court of nine counts of theft and one of possessing a Class A drug, receiving 25 months in prison. The tribunal directed that his name be erased from the medical register.
25 February 2026Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Ju Young Um's fitness to practise was impaired by reason of his conviction for 23 voyeurism offences in Glasgow in April 2025, for which he was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment with a 9-month extended licence period and placed on the Sex Offenders' Register for 10 years. The conviction concerned covert recordings of 28 victims in his home and in hospital staff accommodation between 2020 and 2023. The tribunal directed that his name be erased from the medical register and imposed an immediate order of suspension.
19 February 2026Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Thomas O'Neill's fitness to practise was impaired by reason of his conviction and ordered that his name be erased from the medical register. At Edinburgh Sheriff Court on 17 February 2025 he was convicted of communicating indecently with a 15-year-old child between November 2019 and May 2020 by sending sexually explicit messages and intimate images, and was made subject to the sex offender notification requirements. The tribunal found no evidence of insight or remediation and imposed an immediate order so that the suspension takes effect at once.
Workplace conduct and colleagues
23 March 2026Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Jonathon Dean, an anaesthetic trainee, injected a woman with anaesthetic drugs in her bedroom in December 2018 for sexual purposes, without the equipment to monitor her safely. He also admitted attending two London hospitals against instructions and was later convicted at Cambridge Crown Court of nine counts of theft and one of possessing a Class A drug, receiving 25 months in prison. The tribunal directed that his name be erased from the medical register.
25 February 2026Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Ju Young Um's fitness to practise was impaired by reason of his conviction for 23 voyeurism offences in Glasgow in April 2025, for which he was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment with a 9-month extended licence period and placed on the Sex Offenders' Register for 10 years. The conviction concerned covert recordings of 28 victims in his home and in hospital staff accommodation between 2020 and 2023. The tribunal directed that his name be erased from the medical register and imposed an immediate order of suspension.
30 January 2026Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Velmurugan Kuppuswamy's fitness to practise was impaired by reason of misconduct and directed his erasure from the Medical Register. The tribunal found he had engaged in sexual harassment and sexually motivated conduct towards two junior female colleagues while working as a locum consultant. It noted he had previously been erased for dishonesty in 2012 before being restored in 2020, and found limited meaningful insight and a risk of repetition. An immediate order was imposed pending appeal.
Communication, consent, and dignity
23 March 2026Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Jonathon Dean, an anaesthetic trainee, injected a woman with anaesthetic drugs in her bedroom in December 2018 for sexual purposes, without the equipment to monitor her safely. He also admitted attending two London hospitals against instructions and was later convicted at Cambridge Crown Court of nine counts of theft and one of possessing a Class A drug, receiving 25 months in prison. The tribunal directed that his name be erased from the medical register.
25 February 2026Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Ju Young Um's fitness to practise was impaired by reason of his conviction for 23 voyeurism offences in Glasgow in April 2025, for which he was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment with a 9-month extended licence period and placed on the Sex Offenders' Register for 10 years. The conviction concerned covert recordings of 28 victims in his home and in hospital staff accommodation between 2020 and 2023. The tribunal directed that his name be erased from the medical register and imposed an immediate order of suspension.
19 February 2026Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Thomas O'Neill's fitness to practise was impaired by reason of his conviction and ordered that his name be erased from the medical register. At Edinburgh Sheriff Court on 17 February 2025 he was convicted of communicating indecently with a 15-year-old child between November 2019 and May 2020 by sending sexually explicit messages and intimate images, and was made subject to the sex offender notification requirements. The tribunal found no evidence of insight or remediation and imposed an immediate order so that the suspension takes effect at once.
Methodology and limits
This page analyses published erasure and voluntary-erasure determinations in the MedicWatch indexed corpus. It does not claim to measure all misconduct in UK healthcare or every regulator decision ever made.
MedicWatch applies a fixed taxonomy to regulator-derived charges, findings, and plain-English summaries. A determination can match more than one category, so category percentages may add up to more than 100%. The denominator for each percentage on this page is 46 published determinations.
Categories describe broad themes in the regulator's published findings. They are not new allegations by MedicWatch. Follow the linked source determinations for the full wording and context.
For citation, describe this as “MedicWatch analysis of its indexed corpus of published UK healthcare regulator erasure determinations”. Do not describe it as a measure of all UK healthcare misconduct.