Charles Wayawa Mafuta Kisolokele
Introduction
Charles Wayawa Mafuta Kisolokele is a UK doctor who was suspended from the medical register for nine months on 19 November 2025, after a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service found he had inappropriately prescribed medication on five occasions over a twelve-month period — to a community member without a booking, and to himself — and had then concealed it by backdating prescriptions and entering false clinical records. The tribunal found full admissions, genuine insight and no personal financial gain, and rejected erasure in favour of suspension with a review .
Background Information
From June 2022 to August 2023, Wayawa worked as a locum middle grade doctor at the Urgent Care Centre at Royal Preston and Chorley Hospital. The allegations concerned his prescribing across that period: supplying medication to Patient A in non-emergency situations when she was not formally booked in at the centre, and prescribing to himself. Wrapped around both was a pattern of concealment — prescriptions backdated to look contemporaneous, false information given about the activity, and false data entered into clinical records .
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Adjudicated (regulatory). The findings are a medical tribunal’s conclusions on the civil standard. No criminal charge was involved.
The tribunal found five separate dishonest acts of inappropriate prescribing over the twelve months, and found the concealment deliberate: backdated prescriptions and falsified records constructed to keep the prescribing invisible, with the dishonesty ceasing only when the activity was discovered. It concluded Wayawa’s fitness to practise was impaired by misconduct .
The character of the concealment, however, competed with the character of the man. The tribunal accepted he had acted out of a misguided attempt to help others rather than for personal gain, had made full admissions early, and had developed genuine insight and remorse. Its mitigation list ran long: no previous fitness to practise history, early and full admissions, sincere apology, no financial gain, engagement with the GMC investigation, no repetition since discovery, positive testimonials from colleagues and his Responsible Officer, and extensive charitable and humanitarian work. Against it: repetition across five occasions within a year, deliberate concealment by backdating and false records, and dishonesty that stopped only on discovery. Suspension for nine months with a review directed was found the appropriate and proportionate sanction .
Public Reaction and Consequences
The consequence is the nine-month suspension and the finding that an Urgent Care Centre’s prescription record was edited to hide one of its own doctors’ activity — the false entries sitting in the same system other clinicians rely on. The case is recorded in MedicWatch’s listing of doctors suspended in 2025 .
The tribunal identified no personal profit: the misguided motive was helping others, which mitigated but did not excuse — the findings describe prescribing outside proper channels to a patient who was never booked in, and to himself. Self-prescription sits inside the same findings: the register’s rules against it exist because a doctor treating himself has no independent clinician checking the drug, the dose or the indication. No public comment from Wayawa appears in the fetched record beyond the determination .
Current Status
Wayawa is a suspended doctor under a nine-month order imposed on 19 November 2025, with a review hearing directed before it ends. The tribunal’s impairment finding rests on the misconduct, with the genuine-insight finding doing the work that kept erasure off the table .
The review will test whether the absence of repetition since discovery — credited at the hearing — has held. The full admissions and early engagement are the reason the case reads as remediation rather than denial; the backdated prescriptions are the reason it reads as suspension rather than conditions .
Impact on Their Career/Life
Self-prescribing and off-the-books prescribing to an acquaintance are both, on their own, cases regulators see often; what escalated this one was the falsification layer — the backdating that made the prescriptions lie about when they existed. The tribunal’s acceptance of a helping motive rather than gain, and a career of humanitarian work, made this a suspension with a path back. The records falsification is the part that will outlast it: an Urgent Care Centre audit trail was deliberately corrupted, and that finding does not soften with insight .