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Daily Mail
14-07-2025
- Daily Mail
Disgraced family GP who stole worth £1,600 of Botox products from a cosmetic clinic has been allowed back to work
A disgraced family GP who faced career ruin after she stole Botox products worth £1,600 from a cosmetic clinic has been allowed back to work early. Dr Nimrit Dhillon, 35, was caught on CCTV repeatedly helping herself to boxes of Belotero Intense and Bocouture botox from a store room while working as a trainer. Footage showed Dhillon - who calls herself 'Dr Nim' - checking the coast was clear before she loaded her stolen goods into her handbag. When she realised she had been caught, Dhillon, of Mansfield, Nottingham, sent texts to the clinic's founder begging her not to alert the General Medical Council (GMC). One text read: 'Please my GMC I can't be struck off please I can't risk my GMC please I beg you.' She was subsequently reported to the GMC and made subject of a police probe which led to her appearing before Liverpool JPs in August 2023 where she admitted theft by employee and was ordered to complete 200 hours unpaid work, a 12-month community and pay £1,450 compensation. Last November at the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service, Dhillon was found guilty of misconduct charges and was suspended from practice for eight months. But this week it emerged her suspension had been revoked after only seven months following an agreement between her at the GMC that she was safe to return to her job. The hearing was told she had attended an Ethics and Probity Course and other online courses and in a statement she said: 'I accept full responsibility for my actions.' Dhillon added: 'I was dishonest and I stole property. These actions were wholly unacceptable and fell far below the standards expected of any medical professional. 'I deeply regret the harm caused to those I colleagues that I stole from as well as the harm that my actions could have caused the reputation of the profession, to public trust, and to those who relied on me to act with honesty and integrity. 'I have used the suspension period to reflect extensively, to rebuild my ethical understanding and to ensure that I never repeat these mistakes.' The Manchester tribunal was told the thefts took place at an unnamed clinic in Liverpool when Dhillon was delivering training to healthcare professionals on how to administer Botox and facial fillers as well as providing these treatments to patients. Police were called in after three separate raids on a store room between May 23 and June 8 last year. In the first Dhillon stole one box of Belotero Intense and three 100-unit boxes of Bocouture botox worth £450, while in the second she plundered three 100-unit boxes of Bocouture botox, one box of 50-units of Bocouture, one box of Belotero Balance and one box of Belotero Volume to the value of £700. In the third raid she looted four 100-unit boxes of Bocouture worth £450. The hearing was told all the stolen products was found at Dhillon's home and none had been used. She later claimed she didn't need the product for herself but it was 'just sitting there.' When quizzed by police she said: 'I don't know why I did what I did - but I was going through a lot' while a letter she pushed through the door of the clinic read: 'I really don't know what I can even say or where to even begin in expressing my extreme sadness. I know words are not enough right now, but it is all I have. I am so incredibly truly deeply sorry.' In a statement, the clinic's owner - who set up the business after being made redundant from her nursing job by the NHS - said Dhillon appeared 'ethically to be great fit for our team.' She added: 'It really hurt when we found out she was stealing. The thefts caused animosity among our small team, and created a terrible atmosphere with stocktakes taking place and deliveries having to be checked. 'My business partner had a near breakdown and the decision to report the thefts was 'the most stressful we have experienced.' In revoking the suspension MPTS chairman Nathan Moxon said: 'Dr Dhillon has demonstrated significant remediation and has not reoffended. 'I am satisfied, from careful consideration of all of the documentation she has provided, that the risk of repetition of the behaviour that led to her conviction is so low as to be negligible. 'She has developed significant and sufficient insight and remediation and a finding of impaired fitness to practise is no longer necessary to maintain public confidence in the profession or promote proper professional standards. 'Reasonable members of the public and the medical profession will understand that Dr Dhillon has undergone a rigorous regulatory process during which she was suspended from practice and, during that period, developed her remediation as required of her/ 'Dr Dhillon has therefore satisfied the persuasive burden that her fitness to practise is no longer impaired.
Daily Mail
11-07-2025
- Health
- Daily Mail
Village GP is struck off after sending barrage of abuse to female colleague in drunken late-night phone calls
A village GP on a remote Scottish island has been struck off after making abusive late-night phone calls to a female doctor at the practice. Paul Scott, 59, was also accused of initimidating another female colleague by kicking the door of a consultation room before shouting at her while inches from her face. Scott, a general practitioner at the health centre in the tiny fishing village of Brae on the Shetland island of Mainland, was found guilty of serious professional misconduct and his name was ordered to be erased from the medical register. It was claimed during the probe that an officer declined to call the Scott because 'he doesn't respond well to police contact.' At the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service, Scott, who qualified in medicine 36 years ago, was described by patients on Facebook as a 'wonderful empathetic doctor'. However, Scott - nicknamed 'Doc MacMartin' - was struck off following a series of temper-fuelled tirades against female colleagues at his surgery. In the first incident in March 2018, the GP flew into a rage at a female workmate known as 'Colleague A' after a complaint was made against her regarding patient care. The Manchester hearing was told there had been a 'tense clinical situation involving a potentially unwell patient requiring an ECG' and the woman who was with a patient was shocked when Scott began 'hammering' and 'kicking' the door to her room. He eventually gained access before backing the woman against the wall and berating her in such close proximity that she could 'feel his spittle on her face'. In a statement the woman, who had just returned from leave, said: 'He was about a millimetre from my face. All through the day he was telling staff that he was going to report me, on what grounds no-one knew. His actions were so premeditated. 'It appeared to me that he had been thinking about how he could bully me out of the workplace whilst I was on annual leave. 'He approached me the minute I arrived that morning - it was full on aggressive and intimidating behaviour.' Scott was later suspended from the practice in April 2020 by NHS Shetland for undisclosed reasons but reportedly while at home he began drinking heavily and turned on another colleague known as Dr C in August 2021 after discovering she had been working as a locum alongside Colleague A. But he later bombarded a second female colleague with abusive and drunken late night phone calls over a week long period in which he told her repeatedly to 'f*** off'. Both women were said to have been left severe distress and upset by the incidents and Police Scotland were subsequently called in to investigate Scott. The GP had previously worked with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency to help local fishermen undergo medical examinations before going to sea. He became a partner at the Brae Health Centre in 1999 after a period working for the Scottish Office, before taking early retirement from the NHS in 2021. Dr C said: 'I was awakened from sleep by a phone call from Dr Paul Scott. He was very agitated when he phoned. Shouting at me, repeating my name over and over. 'He seemed to be very angry because I had worked the Friday and had been in the next room. 'He said: "What did you talk about at coffee?" and "You had coffee with her" and [was] saying "She is a bad person", "Have you ever been referred to the GMC?", "Are you colluding with them?" 'He said he wouldn't put it on FB - yet. He would not let me speak. He was pretty intimidating and I felt extremely upset, ended up putting the phone down and had little sleep that night before going to do a day's locum in the morning.' Concerned by Scott's beahviour, Dr C kept a timeline of events. She recalled how on September 4 Scott started phoning her at about 11pm and then 'phoned roughly every half an hour a further twice into Sunday morning'. She wrote in her timeline: 'He has been on the phone tonight, abusing me, saying he doesn't trust me and saying he had the right to do this. He was drunk. I'm minded to speak to the police to make them aware - he has no right to abuse or frighten me. 'He wouldn't listen to me when I asked him to get off the phone and stop this. He sounded drunk and in a rage. 'One of the phone calls was just "f*** you, f*** you, f*** you" over and over. The calls got progressively worse, in the night at half hour intervals. In the end shouting at me to f*** off and saying he doesn't like me or trust me that I'm a liar, in collusion. 'Anything I said was twisted and thrown back. I couldn't get a word in to respond if. If I tried, he screamed at me. He repeated my name over and over, was intimidating and me saying "You need help Paul" made it worse. 'All of this seems to have been kicked off by me doing that locum work for two days. I spoke with the police and said it's intolerable, I'm on call and have to answer the phone, and eventually spoke to the police in Lerwick. 'But the officer I spoke to was reluctant to phone him as he said, "He doesn't respond well to police contact". 'I said I was concerned after speaking with his relative that he might try and come through my door, if he was in the vicinity. But he said I shouldn't be worried about that and in the end the best I could do was put the phone through to the hospital. 'The policeman said if he abused the person on hospital switchboard then they would act. The hospital agreed to phone me on another line if there were any calls.' She told other colleagues about the calls and they responded: 'He's very unpredictable and its affecting everyone. He is drinking and has been phoning (people) when drunk during the night and sending abusive texts - trying to control and intimidate. 'He seems to be in a terrible rage much of the time. Apparently, he is completely in denial - it started getting worse after his suspension.' When quizzed Scott claimed he did not believe he had acted aggressively towards Colleague A and said he 'may have had one or two glasses of wine' when he contacted Dr C. His lawyer Stephen Brassington said the abusive phone calls arose out of a 'mistrust of colleagues' and added: 'The distress caused to Colleague A and Dr C was not the product of any intent on Dr Scott's part. 'The incident with Colleague A occurred in a tense clinical situation involving a potentially unwell patient requiring an ECG. 'His conduct amounted to an overreaction in a high-pressure setting not an act of misconduct warranting disciplinary sanction. 'Characterising such conduct as misconduct could risk setting an unhelpful precedent for clinical professionals working under pressure. He had a previously unblemished 30-year career in the NHS.' But Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service chairman Mr Douglas Mackay said: 'The Tribunal determined that the doctor's actions in forcefully hitting the door of the consultation room, causing genuine alarm to Colleague A. 'It found this to be an unacceptable and aggressive confrontation with Colleague A in the workplace and Dr Scott's actions caused Colleague A to fear for her personal safety. He added: 'Persistent telephone calls were made by Dr Scott to Dr C. The abusive language involved the repeated use of Dr C's name and some of the calls were made during antisocial hours. 'The nature and number of these calls, as well as their content, were such that they caused Dr C to feel fearful for her personal safety and prompted her to contact the police for advice on that issue. Dr C described feeling terrified.'
Yahoo
10-07-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Jailed Reading GP struck off medical register for 'coercive behaviour'
A jailed GP has been removed from the medical register. Arun Bagga, 55, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for controlling and coercive behaviour in January 2023. The Reading-based GP also received a suspended sentence in October 2024 for various charges, including assault. He was also ordered to complete a rehabilitation course and 100 hours of community service. On Friday, the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service decided to strike him off, citing "protection of the public". Allowing him to continue would negatively affect "public confidence in the medical profession", the panel concluded. The tribunal's decision comes after a review of Bagga's conduct, which was deemed incompatible with the standards expected of medical professionals. Bagga's name will now be removed from the medical register.
BBC News
10-07-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Reading GP Arun Bagga struck off after coercive control conviction
A GP jailed for controlling and coercive behaviour has been struck off the medical Bagga, 55, was sentenced at Reading Crown Court in January 2023 to 30 months in prison. Bagga, who practised in Reading, was also given a suspended sentence at the same court in October 2024 for charges including assault. He was ordered to undertake a rehabilitation activity and 100 hours of unpaid work. Following a hearing on Friday, the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service found that Bagga should be immediately struck off "for the protection of the public". A panel found if he was allowed to remain on the register "public confidence in the medical profession would be negatively impacted". You can follow BBC Berkshire on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
NDTV
09-07-2025
- Health
- NDTV
Indian-Origin Doctor In UK Suspended For Forcing Mother To Have Baby Using Forceps
An Indian-origin consultant gynaecologist in the UK has been suspended after she was found guilty of serious professional misconduct. The 62-year-old allegedly pressured a first-time mother into a forceps delivery against her will. Premila Thampi, from Mitcham in South London, allegedly bullied the patient - who requested a caesarean section - into accepting forceps-assisted delivery at Milton Keynes University Hospital in October 2016. The woman, 41 weeks pregnant and suffering from a neuromuscular condition, later reportedly said she was feeling traumatised by the experience and said the forceps caused injuries to her baby's head and face. During the encounter, Ms Thampi allegedly made it clear that she was the senior, implying she could have left the delivery to a junior doctor instead of staying beyond her shift. Testimony at the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) in Manchester said that she ignored the patient's repeated objections to forceps, saying, "You are putting your own baby at risk." "You need to let me do this, as I don't know what is going to happen to your baby." The patient eventually gave in to the forceps delivery but reportedly shouted at the doctor, "I hate you, you haven't listened," as the instrument was used. "She just marched into the room to ask me if I was ready for an instrumental delivery and then marched back out again. Dr Thampi didn't explain what an instrumental delivery would involve, or what the instruments to be used were... I verbalised to Dr Thampi that I was against the use of forceps," the woman told a British tabloid. The MPTS ruled that Ms Thampi committed serious professional misconduct, citing her failure to obtain informed consent, her pressure on the patient, and her inappropriate communication. It suspended her from medical practice for three weeks. Tribunal chair Tehniat Watson called the misconduct serious, citing lack of consent, patient pressure, and poor communication, and said the "action is needed to mark the seriousness to uphold the wider public interest." In her defence, Ms Thampi argued the patient raised objections to the use of forceps only when it was already too late, from a clinical standpoint, to safely proceed with a caesarean section.
