Masud Prodhan

Introduction

Masud Prodhan is a former UK general practitioner whose name was erased from the medical register — struck off — by a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) tribunal on 12 November 2025, at the end of a substantive hearing that had opened on 24 March 2025. The tribunal found all charges proved, most of them admitted at the outset, and found his fitness to practise impaired by reason of misconduct. 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 case joined two strands — a course of dishonest self-prescribing carried out through a close personal contact’s NHS records, and a later attempt to conceal it by misleading a formal NHS investigation — alongside wider regulatory failures at the practices he ran.

Background Information

Prodhan was a doctor registered with the General Medical Council, identified in the determination by registration number 3691270. He practised as a general practitioner in Trafford, Greater Manchester, where his practices served the Old Trafford area. The determination records that between November 2015 and June 2019 he inappropriately provided care to Patient A — a person with whom he had a close personal relationship — in a non-emergency situation, contrary to GMC guidance on prescribing and managing medicines: he accessed Patient A’s records and issued prescriptions, and failed to record the clinical information justifying those prescribing decisions. His working environment also attracted scrutiny from outside the medical regulator. A Care Quality Commission inspection on 7 August 2019 identified multiple failings across safe care, safeguarding, premises, governance and staffing, leading to the cancellation of his registration as a service provider, and in March 2020 a Greater Manchester Combined Authority investigation raised concerns about NHS services provided at his practices.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Allegations vs. findings. Dr Prodhan admitted the allegations at the tribunal. The findings are regulatory findings by an MPTS tribunal on the civil standard (the balance of probabilities), including matters admitted at the outset; no criminal conviction is recorded in the determination.

The conduct at the heart of the case ran from November 2015 to June 2019. On seven occasions across nearly four years, Prodhan issued prescriptions to Patient A — a person with whom he had a close personal relationship — with the intention of using the prescribed medication himself. The tribunal described this as dishonest self-prescribing, repeated on seven occasions and maintained over a long period, and found that it was covered up through the use of Patient A’s medical records. His disregard of his professional obligations sat alongside multiple breaches of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 identified in respect of the services provided by his practices.

The concealment became a free-standing strand of misconduct. On 11 March 2020, within a formal NHS local performance investigation, Prodhan signed a witness statement carrying a statement of truth which falsely stated that the prescriptions were for Patient A’s personal use. He repeated that lie eight months later, in November 2020, in a video interview. The tribunal treated these statements as having been intended to deliberately mislead NHS investigators, and their persistence — a lie told twice, months apart, to a formal inquiry — weighed heavily in its assessment.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The tribunal also found proved a set of charges concerning his conduct towards staff and the regulatory state of his practices. It determined that Prodhan caused a staff member to leave because of his behaviour, and that he contacted a staff member at 1am while she was on sick leave. The CQC inspection of 7 August 2019 had found multiple failings — in safe care and treatment, safeguarding, premises, governance and staffing — and these led to the cancellation of his registration as a service provider. The Greater Manchester Combined Authority investigation of March 2020 raised concerns spanning record keeping, the review of pathology results, guidelines on home visits, prescribing, safeguarding and repeat prescriptions.

In mitigation, the tribunal credited Prodhan for admitting the entirety of the allegations and offering a sincere apology — to Patient A, to the investigators he misled, to his colleagues and the profession, and to the public. It also noted a number of stressful and difficult personal circumstances, his lack of any previous history of dishonesty or disciplinary findings, the age of the events (which stretched back to the period 2014 to 2019), the absence of direct evidence of patient harm, and the fact that the behaviour had not been repeated. Against that, the tribunal weighed the deliberate misleading of NHS investigators through a signed witness statement, the use of Patient A’s records to cover up the dishonesty, and the persistence of self-prescribing across seven occasions and nearly four years.

Current Status

Prodhan is struck off the GMC register. The tribunal’s decision of 12 November 2025, at the close of a hearing that had run from 24 March 2025, took the form of erasure with an immediate order, so the removal took effect without waiting for the usual appeal period to run. The tribunal concluded that erasure was the only appropriate sanction, finding his conduct fundamentally incompatible with continued registration and his insight limited, with a resulting risk of recurrence. As recorded in the determination, Dr Prodhan has lodged an appeal, and his registration status therefore stands as erasure pending appeal. Erasure is otherwise indefinite, though it can be reviewed after a minimum of five years.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The erasure ends Prodhan’s career as a doctor in the United Kingdom for the time being: removed from the register, he is no longer permitted to practise medicine, and because the tribunal judged that no lesser sanction would suffice, the removal was made immediate rather than delayed. The admissions and apology he offered did not alter the outcome, because the tribunal found his insight remained limited and his misconduct — sustained dishonesty plus a deliberate cover-up of that dishonesty — incompatible with continued registration. His standing with the care regulator had already been lost before the tribunal sat, since the CQC had cancelled his registration as a service provider following the August 2019 inspection. Any application to return to the register can be considered only after the five-year minimum review period has elapsed, and the pending appeal is the nearer route by which the outcome could be revisited.

Sources

• MedicWatch, “Masud Prodhan — Struck off the register · 12 November 2025”, 12 November 2025.source