Doctors: Sexual Offences
Commons · Question 83514 · Tabled 20 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Question
Asked by Josh Fenton-Glynn
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of whether the absence of mandatory strike-off in the new MPTS guidance for proven sexual misconduct by doctors adequately protects patients.
Answer
Answered by Zubir Ahmed, 30 Oct 2025
The new guidance for Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service tribunals includes more detail about assessing the seriousness of an allegation and the features that may increase the seriousness. The guidance now also includes sanction bandings. These indicat...