Aloaye Foy-Yamah

Introduction

Aloaye Foy-Yamah is a former consultant at Blackpool Victoria Hospital who was struck off the UK medical register in May 2026, more than a year after a medical tribunal found he had raped a woman but let him keep his licence. In March 2025, an independent tribunal suspended Foy-Yamah’s registration for only 12 months, even though the panel accepted he had committed the offence. The General Medical Council (GMC), which regulates the register of doctors able to practise in the UK, appealed that outcome to the High Court, which ordered a fresh hearing. The new tribunal, chaired by Christine McLoughlin, concluded that Foy-Yamah would pose a risk to women were he to resume his career, and struck him off.

Background Information

Blackpool Victoria Hospital is a large hospital in Blackpool, Lancashire, where Foy-Yamah worked as a consultant before the case ended his employment there. The case concerned an attack on a woman who, the tribunal heard, had been lying on a sofa when Foy-Yamah began making sexual advances towards her. The matter was investigated by Lancashire Police, but criminal charges did not follow; it was instead dealt with as a regulatory fitness-to-practise case before a Medical Practitioners Tribunal, which makes its findings to the civil standard rather than the criminal standard applied in a criminal court. The March 2025 suspension decision was later accused of “victim-blaming” and of failing to properly assess Foy-Yamah’s risk to patients.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Adjudicated vs. alleged. The rape finding described below was made by a Medical Practitioners Tribunal in March 2025 and stood through the regulatory appeal process that ended with a fresh tribunal’s striking-off order in May 2026; it is a regulatory finding made to the civil standard, on the balance of probabilities, and a matter of tribunal record. It is not a criminal conviction: Lancashire Police investigated, but criminal charges did not follow and Foy-Yamah was never criminally charged or tried. Foy-Yamah maintained his innocence and appealed the tribunal’s decision himself, but the High Court dismissed his case.

The March 2025 tribunal found that Foy-Yamah had raped a woman who had been lying on a sofa when he began making sexual advances towards her. The tribunal heard that she later told police: “He then goes to kiss me, I start moving my head from side to side.” Her statement continued: “I cannot speak as every time I open my mouth he tries to put his tongue in my mouth.” “I am pushing on his shoulders, trying to get him off. He then grabs my arms and pins them to the sofa,” she said. The tribunal heard the woman say that Foy-Yamah then raped her.

Despite accepting that he had committed the offence, the panel suspended his licence for only 12 months. The original tribunal chair, Angus Macpherson, concluded that the attack had been a “one-off” event. “It did not involve patient safety concerns,” he wrote. “The Tribunal has found it will not be repeated.” The GMC appealed against that decision to the High Court, which ordered a fresh hearing.

At the new hearing, the tribunal chaired by Christine McLoughlin found that because Foy-Yamah would pose a risk to women were he to resume his career, he had to be struck off. McLoughlin wrote: “The Tribunal considered that there was a palpable absence of any meaningful insight expressed by Dr Foy-Yamah into his behaviour.” “The Tribunal was of the view that Dr Foy-Yamah’s reflections were confined only to how he could prevent future risk of similar allegations arising against him but there was no apology or recognition of the impact of his actions on [the victim] or the impact on public confidence or on the reputation of the profession,” she wrote.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The original suspension drew immediate criticism. Surviving in Scrubs, a campaign group founded by two doctors that aims to highlight sexism, sexual harassment and sexual violence in the healthcare workforce, told the BBC at the time that it had been “appalled” by the ruling, which it accused of victim-blaming and of failing to properly assess Foy-Yamah’s risk to patients. “This belittles the traumatic experiences of survivors of sexual assault and undermines public trust in the profession,” co-founder Dr Becky Cox said. “It sets a standard that perpetrators of sexual violence face minimal consequences for their actions.”

After the fresh tribunal struck Foy-Yamah off, a GMC spokesperson said: “There is no place for sexual misconduct in healthcare.” “We maintained that Dr Aloaye Foy-Yamah posed an ongoing risk and should be struck off the medical register to protect patients and uphold confidence in the profession,” the spokesperson said. Blackpool Victoria Hospital said it no longer employed Foy-Yamah.

Current Status

As of the BBC’s reporting on 15 May 2026, Foy-Yamah has been struck off the medical register, which means he is prohibited from practising as a doctor in the UK. His own appeal against the tribunal’s decision was dismissed by the High Court, and the reporting contains no indication of any further challenge. The rape finding remains a regulatory tribunal finding made to the civil standard: no criminal charges followed the Lancashire Police investigation, and he has never been criminally convicted.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The striking-off order ends Foy-Yamah’s ability to practise as a doctor in the United Kingdom and formally severs his ties with Blackpool Victoria Hospital, which confirmed it no longer employed him. The regulatory arc of the case — a 12-month suspension reversed on appeal into a permanent striking-off — turned on the fresh tribunal’s conclusions that he showed a “palpable absence of any meaningful insight” into his behaviour, that his reflections extended only to avoiding future allegations, and that he would pose a risk to women were he to resume his career. His maintenance of innocence did not persuade either the new tribunal or the High Court, which dismissed his appeal against the decision.