Alan Campbell
Introduction
Dr Alan Campbell is a general practitioner who was registered with the General Medical Council under number 7453209. On 23 January 2026, at the conclusion of a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) substantive hearing that had run from 21 to 23 January 2026, the tribunal determined that his name be erased from the Medical Register — the sanction commonly described as being struck off. The decision followed his conviction on 8 May 2025 at Downpatrick Crown Court of possession and making of indecent photographs of children. An immediate order of suspension was imposed.
Background Information
The published determination records little of Campbell’s personal or professional history beyond his role as a general practitioner. It does record that he was a GP with access to children during the period of offending — a circumstance the tribunal listed among the aggravating factors. The offending itself was not a single lapse: the tribunal found that it spanned 2014 to 2022, and that the material recovered was distributed across six electronic devices.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Adjudicated vs. alleged. His conviction at Downpatrick Crown Court is a matter of court record. The tribunal’s findings are regulatory determinations of the MPTS.
Campbell was convicted on 8 May 2025 at Downpatrick Crown Court of five counts of possession and six counts of making indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of a child or children. A total of 211 illegal images and videos were found across six electronic devices, including Category A, B and C material — Category A being the most serious grading, with the tribunal’s aggravating-factors record citing 50 Category A images and videos depicting severe abuse of children. He was sentenced to a Community Service Order of 75 hours, a Probation Order of two years, a Sexual Offences Prevention Order of five years, and became subject to notification requirements as a sex offender for five years.
The tribunal found the conviction facts proved and determined that Campbell’s fitness to practise was impaired by reason of his conviction. It assessed the level of current and ongoing risk to public protection as high, found that he had extremely limited insight, had provided no evidence of remediation, and that there was a significant risk of repetition. It directed erasure from the Medical Register as the only proportionate sanction and imposed an immediate order of suspension.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The criminal conviction carried the sentences imposed at Downpatrick Crown Court in May 2025: 75 hours of community service, a two-year probation order, a five-year Sexual Offences Prevention Order and five years on the sex-offender notification requirements. The regulatory consequences followed eight months later, when the matter came before an MPTS tribunal sitting from 21 to 23 January 2026.
The determination records the aggravating factors the tribunal identified: the offending was persistent and repeated, occurring over a prolonged period from 2014 to 2022; the volume and nature of the material was serious, including the 50 Category A images and videos depicting severe abuse of children; Campbell was a general practitioner with access to children during the period of offending; he provided no evidence of insight or remediation; and he did not engage with the regulatory proceedings. The determination records the regulator’s findings rather than press coverage or public commentary, and no public statements by Campbell are recorded in it.
Current Status
As determined on 23 January 2026, Alan Campbell is erased from the Medical Register and is struck off, with an immediate order of suspension in force. Erasure removes a practitioner from the register so that they are no longer permitted to practise the profession in the UK; it can be reviewed after a minimum of five years but is otherwise indefinite. Unless a review were to change the outcome, Campbell cannot work as a doctor in the United Kingdom.
Impact on Their Career/Life
The erasure ends Campbell’s ability to practise medicine in the UK, closing a sequence that ran from offending spanning 2014 to 2022, through his conviction in May 2025 on five counts of possession and six of making indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of a child or children, to removal from the medical register in January 2026. The tribunal’s route to that outcome was shaped by what it found missing: insight, remediation, and any engagement with the regulatory process — his non-participation in the proceedings left the finding of extremely limited insight unchallenged. With current and ongoing risk to public protection assessed as high and a significant risk of repetition identified, the tribunal held that erasure was the only proportionate sanction.
Sources
- MedicWatch, “Alan Campbell — Struck off the register · 23 January 2026”, 23 January 2026.source