Former MSG partner is facing misconduct tribunal
A former partner at the Medical Specialist Group is facing a professional tribunal into allegations of misconduct – including sexually motivated conduct towards patients – while he was working in Guernsey.
Obstetrician and gynaecologist Ali Shokouh-Amiri is accused of failing to provide good clinical care to six patients in 2017 and 2018.
At least three Guernsey women plan to travel to Manchester for the hearing, which is due to start on Wednesday next week and end on 14 February, under the auspices of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service – an independent body which has the power to restrict a doctor’s practice or stop them from working in the UK.
It said that Dr Shokouh-Amiri’s alleged failings related to inappropriate behaviour, failing to have a chaperone present when undertaking intimate examinations, consent and sexually motivated conduct towards patients.
It is also alleged that the doctor was dishonest in a letter to one patient’s GP and in respect of information in another’s medical records, and that he retained clinical documents and photographs on his personal mobile telephone.
The MSG confirmed to the Guernsey Press that Mr Shokouh-Amiri worked at the MSG as a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist from 31 October 2016 to 31 August 2019, when he left the partnership.
‘We can also confirm that Mr Shokouh-Amiri has not seen patients in Guernsey since January 2019,’ said a spokeswoman.
The MSG declined to say whether anyone connected with the partnership had any involvement in the Tribunal Service case against the doctor.
Dr Shokouh-Amiri, a Danish national in his mid-50s, qualified as a doctor at Copenhagen University, and relocated to the British Isles about 12 years ago.
He worked in a number of cities and a university hospital before moving to Guernsey. Since he left the island he has been working as a obstetrics and gynaecology consultant in Essex.
The Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust yesterday confirmed he was still working there.
There have been interim conditions on his registration since November.
That includes him only being able to consult with female patients if there is a chaperone present, unless it is a life-threatening situation.
In an online profile, Dr Shokouh-Amiri refers to himself as ‘an experienced consultant’ obstetrician and gynaecologist and a maternity safety board champion lead ‘with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital and health care industry’.
Attempts to contact him directly were unsuccessful.
In a Magistrate’s Court case in 2022, Dr Shokouh-Amiri and his former personal assistant were cleared of breaking data protection laws.
