AC-2024-LON-001145 - [2025] EWHC 2075 (Admin)

In light of the FTT’s findings, NHSE referred the appellants to its Performance Advisory Group (“PAG”) for consideration as to whether they should be referred to the GMC for disciplinary proceedings. PAG recommended that the appellants were referred to the GMC on grounds of failure to provide indemnity details and provision of misleading evidence to the FTT.

In July 2019, NHSE referred the appellants to the GMC on the wider basis that (among other things) the appellants had continued to provide care as GPs in a locum capacity from 1 to 6 November 2018 without a caretaker, which they were not permitted to do. NHSE did not refer Dr Strommer.

On 16 August 2019, the appellants’ GMC registrations were suspended by the Interim Orders Tribunal (“IOT”) for a period of 12 months. In a judgment handed down on 15 January 2020, Julian Knowles J refused the appellants’ applications that the interim suspensions be revoked: Dr Belinda Agoe & Dr Kausar Ali v General Medical Council ([2020] EWHC 39 (Admin)).

On 13 February 2020, the IOT varied the interim orders so as to replace the interim suspensions with the imposition of conditions of practise. On 12 August 2020, the GMC’s application to extend the interim orders was heard by HHJ Stephen Davies sitting as a Judge of the High Court. He extended the orders for a further 12 months but removed the condition that the appellants be subject to clinical supervision.