Ayesha Khan

Introduction

Ayesha Khan is a former UK doctor whose name was erased from the medical register — struck off — by a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) tribunal on 18 November 2025, at the close of a substantive hearing that had run from 11 August to 18 November 2025. The tribunal, dealing with the doctor registered with the General Medical Council (GMC) under number 6066034, found all charges proved and determined that her fitness to practise was impaired by reason of both misconduct and conviction. Khan’s case combined a criminal conviction with a longer pattern of dishonesty: between 2018 and 2022 she was found to have been dishonest to her employer and her regulator across multiple formats, from a falsely completed employment declaration to knowingly misleading written submissions and, finally, forged prescriptions used to obtain controlled drugs for herself. Finding no mitigating factors, the tribunal concluded that erasure was the only appropriate sanction, and imposed an immediate order so that it took effect at once.

Background Information

Khan worked in Leeds, and the events that ended her career centre on her relationship with Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, her employer at the relevant time. The published determination records that she had a prior conviction and had previously received a GMC warning for undertaking roles for which she was not qualified — facts that became central to the case. On that date she submitted a Model Declaration Form to the Trust on which she answered ’no’ to the questions about previous convictions and previous regulatory sanctions, answers the tribunal later found to be false. That form was the first documented act of dishonesty in the chronology, and it set the pattern the tribunal described: concealment of her history from those entitled to know it.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Adjudicated vs. alleged. Her October 2022 conviction at West Yorkshire Magistrates’ Court is a matter of court record. The tribunal’s findings are regulatory determinations of the MPTS.

The criminal conduct at the heart of the case was a course of prescription fraud. Khan produced prescriptions in the name of a fictitious patient, authorised in the name of another doctor, intending to obtain prescription and controlled drugs for herself. She did this on multiple occasions rather than once. She was arrested in October 2021, and — a point the tribunal treated as seriously aggravating — she continued issuing fraudulent prescriptions after that arrest and after her next regulatory encounter in February 2022. On 28 October 2022 she was convicted at West Yorkshire Magistrates’ Court of dishonestly making false representations, contrary to sections 1 and 2 of the Fraud Act 2006, and of possession of a Class C controlled drug. She was sentenced to a community order with a curfew requirement and electronic monitoring.

The second strand of dishonesty was directed at the regulator itself. On 17 February 2022, in written submissions to an Interim Orders Tribunal (IOT), Khan described her conduct as a ‘one off incident’ — knowing, the tribunal found, that she had issued fraudulent prescriptions on multiple occasions. Those submissions were therefore knowingly false, and rather than demonstrating insight they became further evidence against her. The tribunal also noted that she repeatedly failed to provide necessary information to Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, and that during her police interview in October 2022 she initially failed to admit the full extent of her fraudulent prescriptions.

Public Reaction and Consequences

When the substantive hearing opened on 11 August 2025, the tribunal had before it the 2018 declaration, the 2022 IOT submissions and the 2022 convictions. It found all charges proved. It concluded that Khan had been dishonest to employers and to her regulator across multiple formats between 2018 and 2022: she failed to declare her prior conviction and GMC warning on employment forms, forged prescriptions on numerous occasions to obtain controlled drugs for herself, and made knowingly false submissions to the Interim Orders Tribunal. Her fitness to practise was found impaired by reason of both misconduct and conviction.

On aggravation, the tribunal identified the persistence of the dishonesty, which occurred in different formats over a lengthy period; dishonesty directed at both employers and the regulator; attempts to cover up what she had done; and the fact that she continued to commit criminal offences after her initial arrest in October 2021 — all despite the prior GMC warning for undertaking roles for which she was not qualified. On the other side of the ledger it found no mitigating factors at all. She had referred in her earlier IOT submissions to personal circumstances and to social isolation during the COVID pandemic, but the tribunal had extremely limited evidence of those circumstances and of their impact on her misconduct, and gave them no mitigating weight.

At the sanction stage the tribunal determined that erasure was the only appropriate sanction. Khan’s name was erased from the Medical Register, and an immediate order of suspension was imposed so that the erasure took effect without waiting for any appeal period to run.

Current Status

Khan is struck off the GMC register. The tribunal’s decision of 18 November 2025, at the end of the hearing that began on 11 August 2025, took the form of erasure with an immediate order. Erasure is otherwise indefinite, though it can be reviewed after a minimum of five years. The criminal-court consequences run alongside the regulatory outcome: the October 2022 convictions stand on the court record, and the sentence imposed — a community order with curfew and electronic monitoring — was a non-custodial disposal for the fraud and drug-possession offences.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The erasure ends Khan’s career as a doctor in the United Kingdom: removed from the register, she is no longer permitted to practise medicine, and because the tribunal judged that no lesser sanction was appropriate, the removal took effect immediately. The finding that there were no mitigating factors reflects how the tribunal viewed the trajectory of the case: each opportunity to stop, disclose or correct was met with further dishonesty, from the 2018 declaration through the 2022 IOT submissions to prescriptions issued after her own hearing. Beyond the register, she carries a criminal record for fraud offences, and any application to restore her name can be considered only after the five-year minimum review period has elapsed.

Sources

• MedicWatch, “Ayesha Khan — Struck off the register · 18 November 2025”, 18 November 2025.source