AC-2025-CDF-000062 - [2025] EWHC 2619 (Admin)

Erasing a doctor’s name from the medical register may be imposed where this is the only means of protecting the public (para 107). Erasure may be appropriate even where the doctor does not present a risk to patient safety but where this action is necessary to maintain public confidence in the profession (para 108). Factors indicating that erasure is appropriate include offences involving violence (para 109g) and “persistent lack of insight into the seriousness of [the doctor’s] actions or the consequences” (para 109j).

More generally, a person made subject to a suspended sentence of imprisonment will not necessarily receive a sanction of suspension from the register rather than erasure. A suspended sentence of imprisonment marks serious criminality in that it cannot be imposed unless the offence reaches the custody threshold.