Wiltshire GP suspended for 12 months over patient safety

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 30 Oct, 15:46 · Archive

A Wiltshire GP has been suspended from the medical register for 12 months after a tribunal found serious patient safety concerns.

Dr Gabriela Corina Pacurar, a Wiltshire GP, has been suspended from the medical register for 12 months. A Medical Practitioners Tribunal found her fitness to practise impaired due to deficient professional performance following a General Medical Council assessment carried out on 16 and 17 June 2025. The assessment identified repeated serious departures from professional standards.

The tribunal found her performance unacceptable in three key areas: maintaining professional performance, assessing patients' conditions, and clinical management. One GMC assessor said: 'It does not need to be good: it just needs to be competent, so that patients remain safe under the care of the doctor we are assessing.'

Dr Pacurar qualified as a doctor in Romania in 1992 and worked as a GP there until 2006 before moving to the United States. She joined the UK medical register in 2019 and entered the NHS England International GP Recruitment programme that October. Her most recent clinical attachment was at Harbourside Medical Practice in North Somerset from May to November 2023, though she also worked in Wiltshire, Gloucester and Cheltenham. In the assessment, she scored 63.33 per cent in a knowledge test, narrowly missing the 63.93 per cent pass mark. In one simulated case, she agreed to prescribe a combined contraceptive pill to a patient who was unable to take them due to their health.

How it is being reported

• GP suspended after tribunal finds 'serious patient safety concerns'A GP has been suspended from the medical register for 12 months.Gazette & Herald · 30 Oct, 15:07
• GP suspended after tribunal finds 'serious patient safety concerns'A GP has been suspended from the medical register for 12 months.Swindon Advertiser · 30 Oct, 15:07

In this story: Dr Gabriela Corina Pacurar · General Medical Council · Medical Practitioners Tribunal · Harbourside Medical Practice · Wiltshire · North Somerset · Romania

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