Mukhtar Hussain

Introduction

Dr Mukhtar Hussain is a doctor who was registered with the General Medical Council under number 5179929. On 3 December 2025, at the conclusion of a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) substantive hearing that had run from 1 to 3 December 2025, the tribunal determined that his name be erased from the Medical Register — the sanction commonly described as being struck off. The decision followed his conviction on 2 March 2023 at Chelmsford Crown Court of doing an act tending and intending to pervert the course of justice, for which he was sentenced to 14 months’ imprisonment on 5 February 2025. An immediate order was imposed.

Background Information

The published determination records little of Hussain’s personal or professional history. It identifies him as a doctor on the GMC register under number 5179929, and the individual at the centre of the criminal conduct is referred to only as Patient A — indicating that the offending arose in the context of a doctor-patient relationship.

The chronology on the face of the case is drawn out: the conduct occurred on 12 April 2021, the conviction came on 2 March 2023, and the sentence of 14 months’ imprisonment was not imposed until 5 February 2025 — nearly two years after the conviction. The determination does not explain the gap between conviction and sentencing. What it does record is that when the matter finally reached the tribunal in December 2025, Hussain’s lack of insight was found to have persisted “despite the passage of time from his 2023 conviction”.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Adjudicated vs. alleged. His conviction at Chelmsford Crown Court is a matter of court record. The tribunal’s findings are regulatory determinations of the MPTS.

The GMC alleged that on 2 March 2023, at Chelmsford Crown Court, Hussain was convicted of doing an act tending and intending to pervert the course of justice, in that on 12 April 2021 he attended Patient A’s address with £5,000 and a retraction statement, intending to pervert the course of public justice. The GMC further alleged that on 5 February 2025 he was sentenced to 14 months’ imprisonment. Both allegations were found proved. Hussain was not present and was not represented at the hearing.

The tribunal found the allegation proved in its entirety by reference to the Certificate of Conviction — it did not re-hear the criminal evidence. It determined that Hussain’s fitness to practise was impaired and assessed the risk to public protection as high, with all three limbs of public protection engaged. It found that he showed very limited and persistent lack of insight, had provided no evidence of remediation, and had attempted to downplay the seriousness of his offending in his written representations. The tribunal concluded that erasure was the only proportionate and appropriate sanction, and an immediate order was imposed.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The criminal conviction itself carried a custodial sentence: 14 months’ imprisonment, imposed on 5 February 2025. The regulatory consequences followed that November, when the matter came before an MPTS tribunal.

The determination records the aggravating factors the tribunal identified: Hussain demonstrated very limited insight, which had persisted despite the passage of time from his 2023 conviction; he provided no evidence of remediation; in written representations he sought to downplay his offending and requested conditions of practice rather than acknowledging the gravity of his conviction; and he was absent from the hearing. The determination records the regulator’s findings rather than press coverage or public commentary, and no public statements by Hussain are recorded in it.

Current Status

As determined on 3 December 2025, Mukhtar Hussain is erased from the Medical Register and is struck off, with an immediate order in force. 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, Hussain cannot work as a doctor in the United Kingdom.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The erasure ends Hussain’s ability to practise medicine in the UK, closing a sequence that ran from attending Patient A’s address with £5,000 and a retraction statement in April 2021, through a conviction for perverting the course of justice in March 2023 and a prison sentence in February 2025, to removal from the medical register in December 2025. The tribunal’s route to that outcome was shaped by what it found missing: insight, remediation, and any acknowledgment of the gravity of the conviction — his written representations sought conditions of practice while downplaying the offending, and his absence from the hearing left the position of persistent lack of insight unchallenged. With risk to public protection assessed as high and all three limbs engaged, the tribunal held that nothing short of erasure would do.

Sources

• MedicWatch, “Mukhtar Hussain — Struck off the register · 3 December 2025”, 3 December 2025.source