Doctor struck off over sound therapy prescription

Julian Kenyon was interviewed by the BBC Inside Out programme in 2003

A doctor who put pressure on a patient with advanced cancer to pay £13,000 for alternative treatments, including sound and light therapy, has been struck off.

Julian Kenyon, 77, ran the former Dove Clinic, a private health centre at Twyford, Hampshire.

He wrongly told the man: "You have had all the standard treatments and you are running out of treatment options," the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) found.

It said the doctor's conduct was "wholly unacceptable, morally culpable and disgraceful".

Dr Kenyon's prescription in May 2022 included sonodynamic/photodynamic therapy as well as the supplements cannabidiol, claricell and similase, the MPTS said.

The patient was asked to pay a further £20,000 if the initial course of treatment was unsuccessful, the tribunal heard.

He was told there was a 10% chance of his stage 4 prostate cancer being cured, which was a "total fabrication", the MTPS found.

The patient "was vulnerable and... made to feel under pressure to have expensive treatment that was not in his best interests", it added.

The man, who eventually refused the treatment, died in May 2023 after continuing with conventional therapy.

The BBC secretly filmed the doctor in 2003 while he treated a six-year-old boy

In 2003, an undercover investigation by the BBC Inside Out programme accused Dr Kenyon of using spurious tests for allergies.

In 2013, the tribunal found he failed to give good care. The following year, it said he made a misleading cancer cure claim.

The latest MTPS ruling bars Dr Kenyon from practising medicine in the UK.

His former clinic went into liquidation in March 2023 and has debts of more than £154,000, according to Companies House.

It was deemed to be "safe" and "effective", according to its latest Care Quality Commission report in 2019.