Samuel Stefan

Introduction

Samuel Stefan is a doctor whose name stood on the General Medical Council (GMC) register under number 7080797. On 3 December 2025, at the close of a hearing that had run from 10 November to 3 December 2025, a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) tribunal found the allegations against him proved, determined that his fitness to practise was impaired, and imposed erasure — the only sanction it found appropriate and proportionate — with an immediate order. The case concerned repeated acts of sexually motivated conduct towards three junior colleagues, Mr A, Mr B and Mr C, at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth between August 2022 and February 2023. Stefan was absent and unrepresented throughout the proceedings; the tribunal went on to find the conduct constituted sexual harassment, was an abuse of his more senior position, and continued after Trust and police investigations had begun.

Background Information

The published record identifies Stefan as a doctor registered with the GMC under number 7080797, working at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth in the period the allegations cover, August 2022 to February 2023. The three colleagues the allegations concerned — Mr A, Mr B and Mr C — were junior to him, and the tribunal found his conduct was an abuse of his more senior position. The matter reached the tribunal after the first incident triggered investigations by the Trust and by police; the record shows the misconduct involving Mr B and Mr C occurred after those investigations had started. Stefan did not attend or participate in the regulatory process at any point, and the hearing proceeded in his absence. The published record does not state his specialty or grade, and this page does not guess at them.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Adjudicated vs. alleged. The findings below come from an MPTS tribunal determination, which decides allegations on the balance of probabilities. They are regulatory findings, not criminal convictions. The tribunal found the allegations proved; the published record does not record any criminal conviction arising from the same conduct.

The GMC alleged four occasions of sexually motivated conduct. First, on 5 August 2022, Stefan arranged to meet a junior colleague, Mr A, in hospital toilets via an application and engaged in sexually motivated conduct. Second and third, on 9 December 2022 and 12 December 2022, whilst working with Mr B, he engaged in repeated acts of sexual misconduct including unwanted physical contact of a sexual nature, explicit sexual comments, and requests for sexual acts. Fourth, on 24 February 2023, whilst working with Mr C, he made repeated unwanted sexual contact with Mr C’s body. The GMC alleged this conduct was without consent, sexually motivated, constituted sexual harassment under the Equality Act 2010, and was an abuse of his more senior position.

The tribunal found the allegations proved and his fitness to practise impaired. It found the misconduct involved repeated acts of a sexual nature against three junior colleagues across four separate occasions, “demonstrating blatant disregard for professional boundaries” in that the misconduct involving Mr B and Mr C occurred after he had already been investigated by the Trust and police following the first incident involving Mr A. It found a pattern of behaviour incompatible with the standards expected of a registered medical practitioner, a complete absence of insight or remorse, and no evidence of remediation. On mitigation it found none: no apology, no expression of remorse, no recognition of the seriousness of the misconduct, and no evidence of insight or remediation. Among aggravating factors it found he failed to work collaboratively with junior colleagues and did not engage with the regulatory process. “Erasure was the only appropriate and proportionate sanction.” An immediate order was imposed.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The published record contains no press coverage of the hearing and no public statements — none from Stefan, who was absent and unrepresented throughout, and none from the three colleagues, the Trust or campaign groups. The concrete consequence is the erasure direction itself, effective under the immediate order rather than after a waiting period. The fact that Trust and police investigations followed the first incident is recorded in the tribunal’s findings, but the published record states no outcome of those investigations. MedicWatch, which maintains the practitioner-facing record of the decision, aggregates regulator outcomes and states it does not editorialise the regulator’s findings.

Current Status

Stefan is erased from the GMC register, the decision having been made on 3 December 2025 at the end of the three-and-a-half-week hearing. Because the tribunal found no mitigating factors and determined erasure to be the only appropriate and proportionate sanction, it also imposed an immediate order, so the erasure took effect without the usual 28-day appeal waiting period. The published record shows no appeal and no application for restoration. His registration status per the published decision is erasure; readers are directed to the official GMC register for current status.

Impact on Their Career/Life

Erasure ends Stefan’s ability to practise as a registered doctor in the UK unless a future restoration application succeeds, and the tribunal’s reasoning — a persistent and continuing lack of insight, no remorse, and misconduct that escalated even after Trust and police investigations began — records why it considered no lesser sanction or period of reflection appropriate. The immediate order meant the end of his registration took effect at once rather than after an appeal window. The published record contains no information about his circumstances beyond the case, and nothing on this page should be read as going beyond it.

Sources

• *MedicWatch, “Samuel Stefan — Struck off the register · 3 December 2025”, 3 December 2025 — source