Narendra Dave
Introduction
Narendra Dave is a UK-registered GP who was suspended from the medical register for ten months on 26 August 2025, after a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service found his fitness to practise impaired by reason of misconduct — the misconduct being what an Australian tribunal had already determined: 76 breaches of supervised practice conditions imposed by the Medical Board of Australia, and a failure to give that board complete and accurate information about his compliance .
Background Information
Dave qualified in London in 1978, joined the GP register in 1989, and relocated to Western Australia in 2016, where he became a fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. He held UK registration without a licence from June 2018 — until March 2020, when COVID-19 emergency powers automatically converted every UK registration to one with a licence. Dave was still living and practising as a GP in Australia at the time, and later returned to the UK .
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Adjudicated (regulatory, two jurisdictions). The Australian determinations are the State Administrative Tribunal of Western Australia’s conclusions; the GMC case applied them to UK registration.
On 18 December 2023, the State Administrative Tribunal of Western Australia determined that Dave had behaved in a way that constituted professional misconduct. The factual core was supervision: conditions imposed on his Australian registration on 22 January 2020 required supervised practice, and the tribunal found he contravened them on 76 occasions. Between 15 February 2021 and 31 October 2021, it further found, he failed to provide complete and accurate information to the Medical Board of Australia about his compliance. The SAT reprimanded him, suspended his Australian registration for twelve months, and imposed a further twelve months of conditions .
The GMC case that reached the MPTS in August 2025 was the UK consequence of that record: a “determination of another regulator” case, in which the UK tribunal applies a foreign regulator’s findings to the UK register. The tribunal recorded Dave’s fitness to practise as impaired and imposed a ten-month suspension — its own assessment layered on top of the Australian sanctions rather than a repetition of them .
The structure of the conduct is what makes it unusual. The COVID-19 automatic-licence rule meant a doctor practising under Australian supervision held a full UK licence simultaneously; the UK register inherited the consequences only when the Australian determination was made. Supervised-practice conditions exist because a regulator has decided a doctor must not practise unwatched — treating them as optional, seventy-six times, is the opposite of the candour the system runs on .
Public Reaction and Consequences
The consequence is the ten-month UK suspension stacked on an Australian reprimand, twelve-month suspension and twelve months of conditions — two regulators reaching for the same file. The case is recorded in MedicWatch’s listing of doctors suspended in 2025 .
No employer statement or public comment from Dave appears in the fetched record beyond the determination .
Current Status
Dave is a suspended doctor under a ten-month order imposed on 26 August 2025, by which point his Australian suspension had already run. The UK finding rests on the SAT’s factual determinations — the 76 contraventions and the inaccurate information — applied to his UK registration. The published page does not state whether a review hearing was directed .
Any return to practice in either country now carries the fact that supervision conditions were breached at scale and the breaches were misreported to the regulator that imposed them .
Impact on Their Career/Life
A career that spans the UK and Australia in general practice now carries matching findings in both. Supervision orders are among the least punitive tools a medical regulator has — no suspension, no erasure, just a requirement to practise watched — and the SAT’s decision to escalate to a reprimand and suspension shows how quickly that tool loses meaning when the doctor treats it as optional. The UK tribunal’s ten-month suspension closes the loop: the licence the COVID emergency rules granted automatically in March 2020 is now the subject of a UK impairment finding grounded in conduct the Australian courts had already adjudicated. For a doctor approaching the end of a long career, the file that follows him between hemispheres is the sanction that outlasts both orders .