GP found guilty of professional misconduct over failure to notify Medical Council of tax offences

The potential sanctions range from advice, admonishment or censure to striking the doctor’s name off the medical register

The IMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee ruled on Monday that two charges of professional misconduct against Dr Bassam Naser (pictured) were proven in relation to false declarations he had made in annual returns to his regulatory body. Photo: Collins Photos

A Dublin GP, who was the subject of a high-profile public campaign to have him released from prison in 2018 after he pleaded guilty to tax offences, has been found guilty of professional misconduct over his failure to notify the Irish Medical Council of his criminal convictions.

The IMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee ruled on Monday that two charges of professional misconduct against Dr Bassam Naser, a family doctor with a practice in Sutton, were proven in relation to false declarations he had made in annual returns to his regulatory body.