Doctor who carried out 'sexually motivated examinations' struck off

Doctor who touched patient’s breast, put his hand down her trousers and pushed his groin into another during a ‘sexually motivated examination’ is struck off the medical register following tribunal

• Dr Amirul Haque was erased from the medical register following a tribunal
• The doctor carried out ‘sexually motivated examinations’ on multiple patients
• Found to have touched a patient’s breasts and put his hand down her trousers 
• Also pushed his groin into another patient and looked down a third’s trousers 

A doctor who touched a patient’s breast, put his hand down her trousers and pushed his groin into another during a ‘sexually motivated examination’ has been struck off the medical register following a tribunal.

Dr Amirul Haque, who has practised in Birmingham, Dudley and Stockton-on-Tees, was also found to have looked down a third patient’s trousers.

The doctor was erased from the register following a Medical Practitioners Tribunal hearing. 

It comes after Haque was acquitted of all charges at two Crown Court trials. This included an 11-day trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court in 2018.

The allegations that led to the hearing arose when he was in post as a Foundation Year 11 trainee doctor, and later as a Foundation Year 2 doctor at a GP placement. 

Three patients made complaints against the doctor who was alleged to have examined them with sexual motivations. 

Jurors acquitted the then 33-year-old, who had denied the charges insisting he had acted appropriately during the consolations, after eight hours of deliberations.

Dr Amirul Haque (pictured) has been struck off the register after a ‘sexually motivated examination’ of multiple patients, a tribunal had heard

While Haque was suspended by an Interim Orders Tribunal, it was further alleged that he accepted a role as a case manager for CHS Healthcare when he knew that this role required him to be a registered healthcare professional. It was alleged that this was dishonest.

The Medical Practitioners Tribunal panel determined the facts and found some proved and others not.

The ‘sexually-motivated examination’ of Patient A took place in May 2013 where the panel found that Haque ‘examined Patient A’s chest with a stethoscope and used his hand to squeeze Patient A’s breasts’.

While examining her abdomen he also put his hand down her trousers. And as he examined Patient A’s knee and hip he put his hand on her groin and placed her foot on his crotch among other incidents, the panel heard.

He was found to have placed his hand under his nose ‘after touching Patient A’s vaginal lips with the same hand’. 

Haque inappropriately prescribed the same patient laxatives and asked them to provide him with an email address and phone number where he later inappropriately sent an email twice from his personal email account.

The tribunal heard that the ‘sexually-motivated examination’ of Patient B and C took place in January 2016. They say Haque carried out a neck examination on Patient B and pushed his groin into her upper back/neck area while pulling her backwards into his groin.

The doctor, who has practised in Birmingham, Dudley and Stockton-on-Tees, was erased from the register following a Medical Practitioners Tribunal hearing. Pictured: Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service

Meanwhile, during a consultation, he ‘stared at Patient C’s breasts, pulled her waistband and looked down her trousers, and pushed his groin into her back’. 

He also tried to pat her on the bottom as he was leaving, the tribunal was also told.

But a number of allegations were found not proven including that he asked about a patient’s sex life. 

An allegation that he accepted the role of case manager in July 2016 with CHS Healthcare when he knew the role required him to be a registered healthcare professional was not proved.

Paul Williams, the General Medical Council representative, submitted that members of the public and the profession would find Haque’s actions ‘shocking and deplorable’. 

The tribunal considered that there was a ‘very real risk of repetition, in all the circumstances’. The panel determined that Haque’s fitness to practice was impaired by reason of his misconduct.

Jurors acquitted Haque at Wolverhampton Crown Court (pictured) in 2018 after an 11-day trial 

Gerry Boyle KC, on behalf of the doctor, invited the tribunal to conclude that the proportionate approach, in this case, was the imposition of a suspension. 

Mr Boyle said that Haque had not committed an offence, received a conviction and was not a registered sex offender.

He told the tribunal: ‘There had been no involvement of children. The doctor was not a registered sex offender. He submitted that the most serious such elements were not present.’

The tribunal determined that Haque’s behaviour in relation to each patient had been ‘predatory’. 

The document adds: ‘He had taken advantage of the three female patients to carry out sexually motivated examinations and he had pursued Patient A by sending her emails after her hospital discharge.’

The tribunal concluded that the only proportionate sanction was erasure and ordered that Dr Haque’s name be erased from the medical register.

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