Deepu Alkere Nanjundaswamy
Introduction
Dr Deepu Alkere Nanjundaswamy is a doctor who was registered with the General Medical Council under number 7941048. On 26 June 2026, at the conclusion of a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) substantive hearing that had run from 22 to 26 June 2026, the tribunal determined that his fitness to practise was impaired by reason of a conviction and misconduct, and that his name be erased from the Medical Register — the sanction commonly described as being struck off.
Background Information
The published determination records little of Alkere Nanjundaswamy’s personal or professional history beyond his role as a registered doctor and his GMC registration number, 7941048. What it does record is an escalating sequence of events spread over more than two years. On 27 April 2023 he was convicted at Chesterfield Magistrates’ Court of a drink-related driving offence, and he failed to notify the GMC of the charge and conviction. On 23 August 2023 he consumed alcohol while on duty in an emergency department. By January 2025 he was subject to an interim order of conditions, and an incident that month led to a criminal charge. In July 2025 he left the United Kingdom with a court appearance outstanding. All of these events appear in the allegation the tribunal found proved.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Adjudicated vs. alleged. His conviction at Chesterfield Magistrates’ Court is a matter of court record. The tribunal’s other findings are regulatory determinations of the MPTS on the civil standard.
The conviction at the head of the allegation dates to 27 April 2023, when Alkere Nanjundaswamy was convicted at Chesterfield Magistrates’ Court of being in charge of a motor vehicle after consuming alcohol above the prescribed limit. The reading recorded was 123 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath. He was fined £2,200 and disqualified from driving for four months. The tribunal also found proved that he failed to notify the GMC of the charge and of the conviction.
The misconduct findings that followed span two years. On 23 August 2023 he consumed alcohol while on duty in the emergency department at Chesterfield Royal Hospital — the tribunal later found that his doing so raised patient safety concerns. On 28 January 2025, at Chesterfield train station, he slapped Ms A’s face while intoxicated, in breach of an interim order of conditions then in force, and was later charged with assault. On 28 July 2025 he left the UK while aware that he was required to appear at Sheffield Magistrates’ Court in connection with that charge.
The tribunal found Alkere Nanjundaswamy’s fitness to practise impaired by reason of both his conviction and the misconduct. It determined that he posed a high current and ongoing risk to public protection, with all three limbs engaged. It found that his physical violence, breach of interim conditions, failure to notify the regulator, disengagement from the process and departure from the UK to avoid criminal proceedings undermined public confidence and professional standards. It found no reliable evidence of current insight or remediation.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The determination records the regulator’s findings rather than press coverage or public commentary, and no public statements by Alkere Nanjundaswamy are recorded in it. The recorded consequences run across the courts and the regulator: the fine of £2,200 and the four-month driving disqualification imposed at Chesterfield Magistrates’ Court in April 2023; the assault charge that followed the January 2025 incident at Chesterfield train station; and the erasure directed at the conclusion of the June 2026 hearing.
The tribunal’s reasons for treating the case as one warranting erasure are recorded in its own terms: consuming alcohol while on duty raised patient safety concerns; physical violence and the breach of interim conditions undermined public confidence and professional standards; the failure to notify the regulator compounded both; and disengagement from the process together with departure from the UK to avoid criminal proceedings was found to undermine confidence further. Those findings sat against an assessment of high current and ongoing risk to public protection and no reliable evidence of current insight or remediation.
Current Status
As determined on 26 June 2026, Deepu Alkere Nanjundaswamy is erased from the Medical Register and is struck off. 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, he cannot work as a doctor in the United Kingdom. The assault charge connected to the January 2025 incident remains a separate criminal matter; the determination records no resolution of it.
Impact on Their Career/Life
The erasure ends Alkere Nanjundaswamy’s ability to practise medicine in the UK, closing a sequence that ran from a drink-related driving conviction in April 2023, through alcohol on duty in an emergency department that August, to the January 2025 incident at Chesterfield train station that the tribunal found proved as misconduct and a departure from the UK that July while facing the resulting charge — and finally to removal from the medical register in June 2026. The tribunal’s route to that outcome was shaped by what it found missing and what it found present: no reliable evidence of current insight or remediation on one side, and a high current and ongoing risk to public protection with all three limbs engaged on the other. Its findings of failure to notify the GMC, breach of the interim order of conditions and departure to avoid criminal proceedings aggravated the picture, and his disengagement left it unchallenged. With patient safety, public confidence and professional standards all engaged, the tribunal directed erasure.
Sources
- MedicWatch, “Deepu Alkere Nanjundaswamy — Struck off the register · 26 June 2026”, 26 June 2026.source