The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) said Dr Aladwan’s posts “may impact on patient confidence” in both her and the profession, while patients could be “discouraged” from seeking treatment from her.
Dr Aladwan, who is British Palestinian, denies making racist or hate speech.
Her lawyer told the tribunal there was “no evidence” that her activities have had “any impact on patient safety or her ability to fulfil her duties as a doctor”.
Dr Aladwan’s suspension will take effect from today and will be reviewed within six months.
In the tribunal’s ruling, it said it “notes that there is no information to suggest that any patient complaints have been raised or that any patients have come to harm”.
Responding to the tribunal’s ruling on X, Dr Aladwan said: “Let this decision stand as the definitive proof that there is no independent British medical regulation. The ‘Israeli’ and Jewish lobby decide who can and cannot practise medicine in Britain.”
It’s interesting that they don’t provide any of the tweets for context.
Are they as inflammatory as MPTS suggests or is this Israeli pressure, as has been seen in other institutions?
The lack of tweets would leave me to conclude the evidence is flimsy and this is a witchhunt but it could just be weak reporting.
You’re absolutely right. In fact she had previously been cleared by the GMC of any wrongdoing, but Wes Streeting, the odious health secretary, insisted they’d made the wrong decision so a new investigation was initiated. It’s disgusting.
It’s a Zionist smear campaign. The fact that there were no complaints by any patients really tells you all you need to know.
I’ll stop reading here.
Patients are often scared to complain about Doctors. If this person wants to fight for Hamas, that’s her choice, but she clearly has lost sense of professional conduct to be a doctor.
No they’re not. Especially not in the UK.
Could have just spared everyone this verbal diarrhea.