GP who faked assault by patient to get him removed from list is suspended for 12 months

A senior GP has been suspended from the UK medical register for 12 months after faking an assault on him by a patient in a bid to get the patient removed from the practice’s list.Gurkirit Kalkat, who had failed in previous attempts to persuade Patient A to change to another practice, threw himself against a door and hit himself in the chest before pressing a panic button during a consultation, Patient A told a medical practitioners tribunal.Kalkat, 58, did not attend the hearing and was not represented, although he denied the allegation in a statement. But the tribunal concluded that it was more likely than not that Kalkat’s report to police that Patient A had assaulted him was untrue.“The tribunal considered that the preponderance of the evidence pointed to the likelihood of Dr Kalkat having engineered this incident as part of his attempts to have Patient A removed from his…
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