Wayne Davis
Introduction
Wayne Sefton Davis is a former British general practitioner whose name was erased from the medical register — struck off — by a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) tribunal on 26 November 2025, following his conviction at Manchester Crown Court for the sexual assault of two female patients. He was convicted on 14 December 2023 of indecent assault and assault by penetration arising from consultations in 1995 and 2006, and on 13 January 2025 he was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment. Erasure is the most serious sanction available to the regulator: it removes a practitioner from the register entirely, meaning he is no longer permitted to practise medicine in the United Kingdom. The tribunal found his fitness to practise impaired at the highest level of seriousness and concluded that erasure was the only proportionate sanction.
Background Information
Davis was a doctor registered with the General Medical Council (GMC) under registration number 2643609. Born around 1955, he was 69 years old when he was sentenced. He worked as a GP in the Salford and North Manchester area, and both offences of which he was convicted were committed while he was working as a GP in North Manchester — assaults on patients inside the consultation room, in a clinical setting, at the point at which they had come to him for medical help. The offences spanned more than a decade: one in February 1995 and one in November 2006. The pattern only came to light when the victims, independently of one another, went to the police in 2020.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Adjudicated vs. alleged. His convictions at Manchester Crown Court are matters of court record. The tribunal’s findings are regulatory determinations of the MPTS.
The court found that on 20 February 1995 Davis indecently assaulted a patient, referred to in the proceedings as Patient A, by penetrating her vagina with his finger during what was presented to her as a medical examination. More than a decade later, on 24 November 2006, he committed assault by penetration against Patient B, a young woman who was suffering from gynaecological issues when she sought his help; the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said he told her he was performing a procedure and then sexually assaulted her. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said he told one of his victims he “needed to teach her how to pleasure her husband” and said he wanted to check that another was “a virgin”.
When the victims came forward, Davis denied the offences, claiming during the police investigation that any procedures he had carried out would have been necessary. A jury at Manchester Crown Court convicted him of the two counts described above, but he was found not guilty of a separate count of assault by penetration, sexual assault and causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent; two further counts were not proceeded with.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The case moved forward only because the victims spoke up. One woman, having worried for years about what had happened to her, reported the offences in May 2020, and Davis was arrested. The following month, a second woman read about his arrest and came forward to report the 1995 incident. Det Sgt Charlotte Sullivan of GMP called his actions “truly horrific and shocking”, saying he “was in a position of power and used this for his own sexual gratification” and took advantage of the women “when they needed reassurance”. She added that he “knowingly did not follow the guidance of the GP’s chaperone policy and sexually assaulted lone women in his place of work with no regard for their wellbeing whatsoever”.
Gill Petrovic of the CPS described him as a “highly respected man” in his community who had abused his position of trust as a doctor to commit sexual offences against women under his care. On 13 January 2025, Manchester Crown Court sentenced him to five years’ imprisonment for the 1995 indecent assault and eight years for the 2006 assault by penetration, to run concurrently — a total of eight years. He also became subject to indefinite notification requirements under the Sexual Offences Act 2003, meaning he must remain on the sex offenders register for life.
The MPTS hearing followed in November 2025. The tribunal found the allegations proved by Certificate of Conviction and determined that erasure was the only appropriate sanction, imposing an immediate order so that his removal took effect at once. Among the aggravating factors it identified were his not guilty plea, his lack of insight and remediation, the particular position of trust he held as a GP within the community he served, the vulnerability of both patients, and conduct in a clinical setting across two separate incidents spanning many years.
Current Status
Davis is struck off the GMC register. The tribunal, sitting from 24 to 26 November 2025, directed erasure with an immediate order at the end of the hearing; he was not present and was not represented. It found no insight, no remediation and a high risk of repetition, with all three limbs of public protection engaged. Erasure is otherwise indefinite, though it can be reviewed after a minimum of five years. The criminal consequences continue to run alongside the regulatory outcome: he is serving an eight-year prison sentence and remains subject to the indefinite notification requirements of the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
Impact on Their Career/Life
The erasure ends Davis’s career as a doctor in the United Kingdom: removed from the register, he may no longer practise medicine, and because the tribunal assessed the risk to public protection as high with no evidence of insight, the removal took effect immediately rather than after the usual waiting period. The standing he had built over decades — the “highly respected man” described by the CPS — is now permanently attached to his convictions for sexually assaulting patients who had come to him for care. Now in his seventies, he is serving a custodial sentence, and the indefinite registration requirements mean the consequences of the 1995 and 2006 assaults will follow him for the rest of his life. Any application to return to the register could be considered only after the five-year minimum review period has elapsed.