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

There is GMC-approved guidance to tribunals on imposing sanctions on a doctor’s registration. The Sanctions Guidance applied by the MPT in the present case is dated 5 February 2024 (“the Guidance”). This states that “[t]he main reason for imposing sanctions is to protect the public” (para 14) and that “[s]anctions are not imposed to punish or discipline doctors, but they may have a punitive effect” (para 16).