Steven Roberts
Introduction
Steven Roberts was a consultant anaesthetist at Hull Royal Infirmary whose name stood on the General Medical Council (GMC) register under number 3657034. On 10 October 2025, at the end of a three-day Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) hearing, a tribunal recorded that his fitness to practise was impaired by reason of misconduct and directed that his name be erased from the medical register. The case concerned sexual harassment of two female colleagues at the hospital, including touching and sexually motivated comments. Roberts did not attend the hearing and was not legally represented; he had, however, admitted during his trust’s internal investigation that his behaviour was wrong and had apologised for it.
Background Information
The published record identifies Roberts as a UK-qualified doctor, on the register since 1992, working as a consultant anaesthetist at Hull Royal Infirmary. His GMC number is 3657034. The misconduct came to light through an investigation by the hospital trust, which referred him to the General Medical Council; the tribunal that followed was arranged through the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service. The record this page draws on does not state his age, home town or family circumstances, 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 a Medical Practitioners Tribunal determination, which decides allegations on the balance of probabilities. They are regulatory findings, not criminal convictions, and this case involves no criminal charge.
The tribunal heard that Roberts, on one or more occasions, “made a growling sound” while staring at one colleague’s breasts, and on another occasion grabbed her hands and used them to push her breasts upwards. The same colleague described in her witness statement how an incident in which he put his hands around her waist in October 2019 left her “feeling anxious and sick”, and said she felt uncomfortable and vulnerable when he caught her alone again in the disposal room. The tribunal found his actions had “created an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating and offensive environment for her” and were likely sexually motivated.
The second colleague’s witness statement said Roberts made suggestive comments about her new uniform, telling her “I don’t know where to look” while looking her up and down and growling — a growl she described as sounding like “a dirty minded growl”. She told the tribunal he pushed her breasts up with her hands for around 20 seconds. She reported his behaviour to a matron immediately afterwards, describing it as “mucky minded”.
During the trust investigation Roberts said in a statement: “I wish to apologise again”, adding “I never meant to offend or upset her. What I did was wrong and I fully admit that.” The General Medical Council’s counsel, Paul Williams, told the tribunal that the behaviour “amounted to a senior clinician abusing his position of power over junior colleagues”. The panel ruled that his conduct “fell seriously short of the standards of conduct reasonably to be expected of a doctor as to amount to misconduct”, and the tribunal directed erasure from the medical register on 10 October 2025, the hearing having run from 7 October. The MedicWatch record of the decision confirms the outcome: impairment found, erasure directed.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The case was covered by BBC News on 23 October 2025, roughly two weeks after the erasure decision, reporting the tribunal’s findings and the accounts of both colleagues. The published record contains no public statements from Roberts beyond his investigative apology, and none from the hospital trust beyond the fact of its referral. The concrete consequence is the erasure itself: removal from the medical register ends a doctor’s entitlement to practise in the United Kingdom. Roberts was advised he could appeal against the decision; the record this page draws on shows no appeal having been pursued.
The case sits in a wider pattern the tribunal itself named: a senior clinician using his position over junior colleagues. The women who complained did so years apart, and it was the trust’s investigation — not an external body — that brought the conduct to the regulator.
Current Status
Roberts is struck off the UK medical register. The erasure was directed on 10 October 2025 by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service following a substantive hearing; the MedicWatch record notes that the determination explains when the direction takes effect and what appeal provisions apply, and directs readers to the official register for his current status. His practitioner profile, last verified against the GMC register on 9 July 2026, records him as erased from the register at last register check. No restoration application appears in the published record.
Impact on Their Career/Life
Erasure ends Roberts’s career as a doctor in the United Kingdom. A consultant post at a major hospital requires inclusion on the GMC register, and after a finding that a senior clinician sexually harassed junior colleagues, any return would require a restoration application with a demanding evidential bar; none appears in the published record. The record contains no information about his employment, location or circumstances since the strike-off, and nothing on this page should be read as going beyond it.