The General Medical Council is appealing the decision made earlier this year that allowed Dr Ali Shokouh-Amiri to continue practicing medicine.

The obstetrician and gynaecologist was a given a formal warning by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service earlier this year, after he admitted and was found guilty of a number of serious failings.

Those failings all occurred when he was a consultant at the Medical Specialist Group in Guernsey – with six of his patients making more than 100 complaints between them about his work and behaviour.

Pictured: Six women made complaints about Dr Ali Shokouh-Amiri’s work and behaviour while he was employed in Guernsey.

His failings included removing the ovaries of two women without their consent, carrying out intimate examinations without a chaperone on multiple women, and failing to arrange treatment for another patient.

Despite that, the MPTS decided he was allowed to continue practicing medicine.

The GMC today told Express that it has “decided to exercise its powers to issue an appeal in the case of Dr Ali Shokouh-Amiri on grounds including that the tribunal erred in a number of their factual findings, and the tribunal was wrong to conclude that the doctor’s fitness to practise was not impaired”.

If the appeal is successful, Dr Shokouh-Amiri could be struck off.

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Pictured: Ali Shokouh-Amiri was employed through the MSG as Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and Head of Gynaecological Oncology, Colposcopy Endometriosis and Minimal Access Surgery between 2016 and 2019. He no longer works in Guernsey.

Dr Shokouh-Amiri’s proven ‘failings’ all occurred when he worked in Guernsey as the MSG’s Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist.

He had moved here in 2016, and left in 2019. He and has worked in Southend since 2022.

The MPTS panel that heard the case against him earlier this year found his “fitness to practise is not impaired” meaning he can continue working there.

At the time, the Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust which employs him told Express that it has “full confidence in his ability to provide safe, high-quality care to our patients”.

However, the GMC has said that it doesn’t share that confidence.

“The GMC’s position was that based on the allegations found proven, the doctor’s fitness to practise should be found impaired for protection of the public, because there was not sufficient evidence of insight, and the tribunal could not be assured that without restrictions on the doctor’s registration, there would not be a risk of repetition.”

“In this case the GMC has decided to exercise its powers to issue an appeal. Any sanction is subject to a 28-day appeal period,” confirmed the GMC.