Stephen Cox
Introduction
Stephen Cox is a doctor who qualified in 1982 with a LMSSA through the Society of Apothecaries of London and who worked as a General Practitioner (GP). He held registration with the General Medical Council (GMC) under number 2605957. His time on the medical register ended on 28 August 2025, when a Medical Practitioners Tribunal sitting under the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) directed his erasure from the register.
The erasure followed criminal convictions of the utmost gravity. On 7 October 2024, following a trial, Cox was sentenced to a total of 22 years’ imprisonment at Reading Crown Court, having been convicted of 11 counts of indecent assault on a woman over the age of 16 and 1 count of indecent assault on a girl under the age of 14. The tribunal’s published background records that all of the offences were committed while he was working as a GP.
Background Information
Cox qualified in 1982, receiving the LMSSA of the Society of Apothecaries of London, and went on to work in general practice. The MPTS considered his case as a conviction case, meaning the tribunal proceeded on the basis of matters established before the criminal courts.
The MedicWatch entry covering his case was added on 5 May 2026, classified as an erasure — “struck off the register” — with a decision date of 28 August 2025 and a substantive hearing that started on 26 August 2025 and ended on 28 August 2025. The page draws its record of the charges from the background contained in the MPTS determination PDF.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Adjudicated vs. alleged. The convictions recorded against Stephen Cox are matters of court record: a jury convicted him following a trial, and he was sentenced at Reading Crown Court on 7 October 2024. The regulatory findings flowed from those convictions.
On 7 October 2024, following a trial at Reading Crown Court, Cox was sentenced to a total of 22 years’ imprisonment. He had been convicted of 11 counts of indecent assault on a woman over the age of 16 and 1 count of indecent assault on a girl under the age of 14 — twelve counts in all.
The counts concerned seven individuals, identified in the tribunal’s background as Persons A to G. Five of the counts of indecent assault on a woman were in respect of Person A. There was one count of indecent assault in respect of each of Persons B, C, D and G, and two counts in respect of Person F. The single count of indecent assault on a girl under the age of 14 was in respect of Person E, who was a child under 14 at the time.
The offences spanned July 1988 through to September 1997 — nearly a decade. According to the tribunal’s published background, all of the offences were committed whilst Dr Cox was working as a General Practitioner.
At the substantive hearing from 26 to 28 August 2025, the Medical Practitioners Tribunal considered the conviction case and recorded its decision on impairment as impaired. It directed erasure from the medical register.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The tribunal found that Cox’s fitness to practise was impaired, its decision on impairment being recorded as impaired, and directed erasure from the medical register. MedicWatch, which aggregates publicly published decisions of UK healthcare regulators, records the determination without editorialising the regulator’s findings.
The consequences on both tracks were terminal for his medical career: a total of 22 years’ imprisonment imposed by the Crown Court, and the tribunal’s direction removing his name from the medical register. The published summary does not set out the tribunal’s assessment of aggravating or mitigating factors in detail; the tribunal’s published reasons are contained in the source determination PDF, with any private material redacted where required.
Current Status
Stephen Cox is recorded as struck off the register, with a decision date of 28 August 2025. Erasure means the regulator directed removal of his name from the medical register, ending his registration with the GMC.
MedicWatch notes that the decision explains when the erasure direction takes effect and any appeal provisions, and directs readers to check the official register for the practitioner’s current registration status.
Impact on Their Career/Life
Cox’s career as a GP ended with the criminal case. He was sentenced to 22 years’ imprisonment in October 2024 for offences committed between July 1988 and September 1997, all of them during his years working in general practice.
The following year, the Medical Practitioners Tribunal directed his erasure from the medical register — the decisive regulatory consequence of the convictions, and the reason his case now appears in records of doctors struck off.
Sources
- MedicWatch, “Stephen Cox — Struck off the register · 28 August 2025,” added 5 May 2026. source