GMC appeals decision allowing doctor to practise after removing two patients’ ovaries without consent

The General Medical Council (GMC) plans to appeal against a tribunal’s finding that a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist’s fitness to practise is not currently impaired, although six years ago he removed two patients’ ovaries without consent and on multiple occasions examined patients without a chaperone.

In February a medical practitioner tribunal decided1 that Ali Shokouh-Amiri was guilty of misconduct over the incidents, which happened in 2017 and 2018. At the time he was employed by the Medical Specialist Group in Guernsey, becoming a partner in 2017, and was head of gynaecological oncology at the Princess Elizabeth Hospital. But the tribunal “considered that Dr Shokouh-Amiri has shown good …