Gurkirit Kalkat, a GP at Thames View Health Centre in Barking, engineered the incident as part of his attempts to have a patient with drug issues removed from his patient list. Other attempts to rid himself of the patient included lying that he (Dr Kalkat) was dying of cancer and offering the patient £15,000 to cease to be registered with the surgery, a tribunal heard. The 58-year-old GP has now been suspended for one year by The Medical Practitioners’ Tribunal Service (MPTS) after he was found guilty of serious professional misconduct.
The disciplinary tribunal heard that on February 3, 2020, the patient was invited to see Dr Kalkat alongside another employee at the health centre named only as Ms C. The patient said: “Dr Kalkat gave me four weeks of prescriptions, then he stood up and walked towards the door. He then threw himself against the door slightly and put his fist on his chest and said ‘stop hitting me, ow, this is violence, you’re attacking me’.
“I was still sat in the chair and started to laugh a little bit because I honestly thought he was joking at first, but when he said to Ms C ‘You just seen him hit me didn’t you?’. And she replied ‘Yes, I did’. “I was still sat in the same chair.
He said me ‘Now you have used violence you have to leave my surgery’. I replied to him ‘What are you doing? Are you being serious or is this sick joke?' He again replied ‘no’.” The patient said he then told Dr Kalkat: “I have done nothing wrong.