{"id":696141,"date":"2026-01-14T20:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/696141\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T20:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:38:10","slug":"apprentice-contestant-struck-off-as-doctor-over-social-media-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/696141\/","title":{"rendered":"Apprentice contestant struck off as doctor over social media posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a separate allegation, the tribunal heard he provided a sick note to a patient in November 2024 while suspended from practicing medical duties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the same year, he walked out of a five-day locum cardiologist placement at University Hospitals Coventry &amp; Warwickshire without notice or good reason, the tribunal found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sick note and abandonment of placement were &#8220;isolated incidents of these types of behaviours&#8221;, the hearing concluded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, it found he had committed &#8220;clear and flagrant&#8221; breaches of medical guidance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">MPTS chairwoman Kate Kirwin said Munaf&#8217;s conduct on social media was &#8220;sustained and repeated&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The seriousness of the facts found proven and associated ongoing risk to public protection mean the effect of Dr Munaf continuing to hold registration would undermine public confidence in the profession,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following the conclusion of the tribunal, a spokesperson for the GMC said: &#8220;There is no place for antisemitism, sexism or misogyny in medicine, and we will always seek to strike off doctors for such conduct.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Additional reporting by PA Media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a separate allegation, the tribunal heard he provided a sick note to a patient in November 2024&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[77,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-696141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115895383137944116","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}