Dr Arunoday
Introduction
Dr Arunoday is a former UK doctor — a neonatal consultant who worked for the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust — whose name was erased from the medical register by a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) tribunal on 21 November 2025, at the end of a substantive hearing that had run from 10 November. The tribunal found proved that he had committed serious sexual misconduct against a colleague, referred to in the proceedings as Ms A, on more than one occasion in 2021, including two incidents it found amounted to rape. It found his fitness to practise impaired by reason of misconduct and determined that erasure was the only appropriate and proportionate sanction. Arunoday has lodged an appeal against the tribunal’s decisions, and his registration remains suspended while that appeal is considered.
Background Information
Arunoday was registered with the General Medical Council under registration number 6073654. The determination refers to him mononymously, without a surname, and no other name appears in the tribunal record. He worked as a Neonatal Consultant for the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, whose hospital sites include the Royal Oldham Hospital, where the newspaper reporting on the case placed him. The colleague at the centre of the case is named in the proceedings only as Ms A — described in press reporting as Nurse A — and cannot be identified for legal reasons. The misconduct found proved took place in 2021, while the two were working at the trust.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Allegations vs. findings. Dr Arunoday has not been criminally charged or convicted. The findings — including the finding that he raped Ms A — are regulatory findings of an MPTS tribunal made on the civil standard (the balance of probabilities), and he maintains his denial and has appealed.
The tribunal found that over a period of around three months in 2021, Arunoday sent Ms A sexual messages. Some of the messages contained images of his genitals, along with inappropriate questions and requests; he told her that he ‘wanted to do sexual things’ to her, said he was watching her location, and made other explicit comments. He then video called her, exposed his penis and asked her to have sex in an on-call room.
While at work, the tribunal found, he tried to kiss Ms A and had sexual intercourse with her, throughout which he ignored her telling him to stop, placed his arm across her chest and put his body weight on top of her; it found these acts were without her consent and that he did not reasonably believe she had consented. An allegation that he also covered her mouth was not determined. On a later occasion he attended her home uninvited, tried to kiss her and again had sexual intercourse with her, on this occasion also touching her chest — the part of the allegations Arunoday admitted.
The tribunal found proved that the two acts of sexual intercourse amounted to rape — one in the workplace and one at her home. It also found proved a further incident in which he asked Ms A whether she wanted to have sex with him, asked if he could kiss her, put his hand on her leg and stroked her hand. Taken together, the tribunal concluded that his actions constituted sexual harassment, were sexually motivated and amounted to an abuse of his more senior position.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The tribunal’s findings recorded serious misconduct including two incidents of rape, predatory behaviour, the abuse of a senior position, harm caused to Ms A and a degree of victim blaming. Submissions made on behalf of the General Medical Council described it as ‘self-evident’ that the findings amounted to serious misconduct, there being two incidents of rape, and as a course of conduct occurring over multiple months involving the targeting of Ms A rather than an isolated incident.
On the other side of the ledger, the tribunal identified mitigating factors: the lapse of time since the incidents occurred, with no evidence of repetition, and the absence of any prior fitness to practise concerns. Against that, it found a lack of insight, noting that Arunoday maintained his denial and did not accept its factual findings, and that it had been provided with no evidence of insight or remediation. Because serious sexual misconduct is particularly difficult to remediate, it determined there was a risk of repetition, and it considered that the passing of time was not relevant to current impairment given the gravity of the misconduct.
Current Status
Arunoday is struck off the GMC register. The tribunal, at the conclusion of the hearing on 21 November 2025, determined that his name be erased from the Medical Register and directed an immediate order so that the erasure took effect without waiting for the appeal period to run. He does not accept the tribunal’s determination: he has lodged an appeal against its decisions, and his registration remains suspended while that appeal is considered. Erasure is otherwise indefinite, though it can be reviewed after a minimum of five years.
Impact on Their Career/Life
The erasure ends Arunoday’s career as a doctor in the United Kingdom: removed from the register, he is not permitted to practise medicine, and the immediate order means the removal took effect at once rather than after any waiting period. The tribunal’s view that there was no evidence of insight or remediation — and that he continued to maintain his denial — meant that nothing he put before it softened the outcome, and its judgment that serious sexual misconduct is particularly difficult to remediate drove its conclusion that erasure was the only appropriate and proportionate sanction. The pending appeal is the one route by which the outcome could still change; until it is determined, his registration remains suspended and he remains out of medical practice.