Amanda Booth

Introduction

Amanda Booth is a British doctor who qualified in 1986 with an MB BS from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and who, on 31 July 2025, was erased from the medical register by a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) tribunal at the end of a substantive hearing that ran from 21 to 31 July 2025. The tribunal considered a misconduct case brought over her conduct in a 2023 job application, recorded its decision on impairment as impaired, and directed erasure from the medical register.

The case concerned her conduct during an application for a Junior Clinical Fellow position at Gateshead Health NHS Trust, in which the tribunal found she acted dishonestly about her regulatory history, both on the application form and on a subsequent declaration form. The dishonesty finding is a finding of the tribunal on the balance of probabilities, not a criminal conviction; nothing in the published record shows that Dr Booth admitted the allegations.

Background Information

Dr Booth completed the General Practice Training Scheme in Northumberland in 1990 and then worked in general practice in various roles, including as a locum, an assistant and a partner, until 2003. Her registration number with the General Medical Council (GMC) is 3170500.

Her regulatory history stretches back long before the events of 2023. Her name was erased from the register in 2006 due to non-payment of the registration fee and was restored in November 2007. Between 1 September 2010 and 29 July 2015 her registration was subject to an interim order of conditions and three orders of suspension, and between 16 November 2020 and 11 January 2022 it was again subject to an interim order of conditions.

By the time she applied to Gateshead Health NHS Trust in 2023, Dr Booth therefore had a regulatory history spanning 2010 to 2022 which, as the published determination records, was due to deficient professional performance. It was the concealment of that history in her job application that became the subject of the misconduct case.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Adjudicated vs. alleged. The account below is the GMC’s allegation as recorded in the tribunal’s published background; the published record available does not state whether Dr Booth admitted the facts or contested them. The dishonesty finding, insofar as one was made, is a regulatory finding of a Medical Practitioners Tribunal on the balance of probabilities — it is not a criminal conviction, and no criminal charge arose from these events.

The GMC’s allegation was that Dr Booth acted dishonestly in 2023 when applying for the position of Junior Clinical Fellow at Gateshead Health NHS Trust. On the application form for that position, she answered ‘No’ to a question asking whether she had ever been removed from the register or had any conditions or sanctions placed on her registration, despite the regulatory history set out above, which included the 2006 erasure and the periods of conditions and suspension between 2010 and 2022.

After having been offered the position, she submitted a Model A declaration form in which she stated that she had been suspended between 2009 and 2015 for reasons that are redacted in the published determination, when in fact her regulatory history spanned 2010 to 2022 and was due to deficient professional performance. The declaration thus misstated both the dates and the underlying nature of her regulatory record.

In January 2024, concerns were raised within the Trust by a staffing manager because of the apparent discrepancies between Dr Booth’s application form, her Model A declaration form and her entry on the GMC register. These concerns were escalated internally within the Trust, and the matter subsequently came before the regulator.

At the substantive hearing held from 21 to 31 July 2025, the Medical Practitioners Tribunal considered the misconduct case arising from the 2023 application, recorded its decision on impairment as impaired, and directed that her name be erased from the medical register. The published record does not set out how the tribunal disposed of each factual allegation.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The tribunal’s conclusion that Dr Booth’s fitness to practise was impaired rested on the statements said to have been made in the course of a recruitment process: the ‘No’ answer on the application form, and a declaration form that placed her period of suspension in 2009 to 2015 and attributed her regulatory history to reasons other than deficient professional performance. The dishonesty finding is attributed to the tribunal itself; the published summary does not reproduce its factual reasoning.

The published record does not set out separate aggravating or mitigating factors. The consequences recorded are regulatory: the tribunal directed erasure, which removes Dr Booth from the medical register kept by the GMC. Within the Trust, the discrepancies were identified by a staffing manager in January 2024 and escalated through internal channels, and those concerns are what fed the misconduct case that ended in erasure.

Current Status

Dr Booth was erased from the medical register by direction of the tribunal, in a decision dated 31 July 2025. Erasure means the regulator directed her removal from the register, so she is struck off the register of medical practitioners. The published record of the decision notes that the determination explains when the direction takes effect and any appeal provisions, and that the official register should be checked for her current registration status.

Impact on Their Career/Life

Dr Booth’s medical career ran from her qualification in 1986 and her years in general practice as a locum, assistant and partner until 2003, through repeated regulatory restrictions — the 2006 erasure for non-payment of the registration fee, the restoration in 2007, and periods under conditions and suspension from 2010 to 2015 and again from 2020 to 2022 — to the erasure directed in July 2025 over her dishonest 2023 job application.

The immediate professional effect of the 2025 decision is the removal of her name from the medical register following the tribunal’s finding of impairment. The determination itself is the published record of that outcome, and her current registration status can be verified against the official register.

Sources

• MedicWatch, “Amanda Booth — Struck off the register · 31 July 2025,” 5 May 2026. source