GP suspended again after lack of regulator contact

Dr Keith Wolverson was suspended for 12 months last year

A GP who worked while he was suspended for misconduct has been stopped from practising again after he made no contact with his regulator.

Dr Keith Wolverson was suspended for 12 months last year for working while a separate nine-month suspension for criticising patients' English skills and asking a woman to remove her veil was active in late 2022.

He worked for Reading-based Practice Plus Group while suspended on 17 occasions, the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) found last year.

An MPTS panel was told he had not had any contact with regulators since a hearing in May 2024 and suspended him for a further six months.

It said the lack of contact amounted to a "continuing lack of insight and remediation", though it said his practising while suspended would have been "remediable and…not fundamentally incompatible with continued registration."

But it said the six-month suspension will give him "the opportunity to re-engage with the [General Medical Council] and these proceedings, to gain insight and to demonstrate that he has remediated his misconduct."

Previous misconduct related to his work while at Royal Stoke University Hospital and Derby Urgent Treatment Centre.