Muhammad Imran
Introduction
Dr Muhammad Imran is a doctor who worked as a paediatric cardiac surgery fellow in Birmingham and was suspended from the medical register for twelve months by a Medical Practitioners Tribunal in March 2026, after it found he had physically and emotionally abused his partner, referred to in the determination as Ms A, over a long period. The tribunal described the abuse as serious misconduct at the higher end of the spectrum and found his insight superficial. He shares no connection with the physiotherapist Imran Khan struck off in 2025, who has his own page on this site for unrelated conduct.
Background Information
Imran’s case is a domestic-abuse case that reached the medical regulator because the person who carried it out was a doctor. The allegation set out physical abuse on multiple specified occasions — including beating Ms A on the neck and shoulders, slapping her, punching her back, hitting her while driving, scratching her face, grabbing her hair and pushing her — and, between specified dates, a course of conduct set out in a confidential schedule which had a serious effect on Ms A .
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Adjudicated (regulatory), not a criminal verdict. The findings below were made by a Medical Practitioners Tribunal on the balance of probabilities in a fitness-to-practise process. Some matters were admitted; the rest were determined at the facts stage. Nothing in the fetched record establishes a criminal conviction for this conduct.
Imran admitted some of the allegations at the outset, and the remaining paragraphs were determined by the tribunal at the facts stage. The tribunal found the substantive paragraphs of the allegation proved, accepting Ms A’s evidence as credible and reliable and noting it was supported by audio and video recordings, contemporaneous WhatsApp messages, photographs of injuries and a contemporaneous police statement .
The tribunal found the conduct breached paragraphs 1 and 65 of Good Medical Practice 2013 and paragraphs 1 and 81 of Good Medical Practice 2024, amounted to serious misconduct, and fell at the higher end of the spectrum of seriousness. Its assessment of Imran himself was stark: his insight was superficial, and he continued to seek to blame Ms A. It found the current and ongoing risk to public protection was high and his fitness to practise impaired by reason of misconduct .
On sanction, the tribunal suspended his registration for twelve months, directed a review hearing, and imposed an immediate order of suspension so that the suspension took effect at once. The determination records that Imran had returned to practise in Pakistan and relinquished his GMC licence in 2025 .
Public Reaction and Consequences
The consequence is the twelve-month suspension with the immediate order attached. The case is recorded in MedicWatch’s listing of doctors suspended in 2026; no public statement from Imran or from any NHS employer appears in the fetched record beyond the tribunal’s determination .
The evidence base the tribunal relied on — recordings, messages, photographs of injuries and a police statement made at the time — is the strongest category of corroboration a civil-standard hearing can have. The page does not name Ms A, following the determination’s own anonymisation, and nothing on this page should be read as a criminal disposition; the fetched record does not establish one .
Current Status
Imran is a suspended doctor under a twelve-month order imposed on 27 March 2026, in force immediately, with a review directed. He has relinquished his UK licence and is recorded as practising in Pakistan. The tribunal’s findings about blame-shifting — that he continued to seek to blame Ms A — are the measured reason the panel found his insight superficial and his risk high, and they will frame any future review .
Impact on Their Career/Life
A tribunal finding that a doctor carried out a course of physically abusive conduct against his partner, at the higher end of seriousness and corroborated by recordings and a police statement, is a permanent fixture of his regulatory record in any jurisdiction that shares fitness-to-practise information. Even with his UK licence relinquished, the suspension stands as the profession’s answer: twelve months off the register, an immediate order, and a high-risk finding that the review will confront .