Thieving doctor cleared to return to work

Dr Nimrit Dhillon was suspended after taking items worth £1,600

A Liverpool-based doctor who stole lip fillers and botox from a former employer has been cleared to return to work.

Dr Nimrit Dhillon was suspended in 2023, after being found guilty of taking items from a former employer worth £1,600.

After self-referring to the General Medical Council (GMC), she was suspended for eight months following a three-day hearing by the Medical Practitioner Tribunal Service (MPTS).

In a reflective statement, made public by the MPTS, Dr Dhillon has since acknowledged her actions were "wholly unacceptable". She said she had used the suspension period "to reflect extensively, to rebuild my ethical understanding and to ensure that I never repeat these mistakes".

Documents made public by the MPTS set out how, in May 2023, Dr Dhillon, who runs an aesthetic procedures business in Liverpool, stole Belotero Intense lip fillers and boxes of Bocouture botox worth £450.

A week later, she stole a further three 100-unit boxes of botox and one box of 50-unit Belotero Volume dermal fillers, as well as an additional box of botox and fillers, totalling £700 in value.

On 8 June 2023, Dr Dhillon took four more boxes of 100-unit botox belonging to Facethetics Training in Aigburth, worth £450.

She was convicted in August the same year.

At a hearing last September at Liverpool Magistrates Court. she was sentenced to a 12-month community order, an unpaid work requirement of 200 hours and ordered to pay £1,450 in compensation.

In a reflective statement, made public by the MPTS, Dr Dhillon said she accepted "full responsibility" for her actions.

"I was dishonest and I stole property," she said.

"These actions were wholly unacceptable and fell far below the standards expected of any medical professional.

She added she "deeply regretted" harm caused to colleagues and to "the reputation of the profession, to public trust, and to those who relied on me to act with honesty and integrity".

After serving her suspension, it has been confirmed the GMC has revoked any barriers to the University of Leeds graduate returning to work.

The GMC and Dr Dhillon agreed in writing, signed by both parties last month, that her fitness to practise is no longer impaired by reason of her conviction, and the suspension imposed should be revoked for the outstanding weeks.

The GMC found "the risk of repetition of the behaviour that led to her conviction is so low as to be negligible".