A Nottingham doctor who pleaded guilty to drink driving offences in court after denying them to a health body has had his registration as a doctor suspended for three months. A tribunal determining Vivek Goel's fitness to practice and if he should be sanctioned has concluded at Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) in Manchester.
Goel, of Derwent Close, Gamston at the time of the sentencing, was banned from driving for three years on January 3 2020 at Nottingham Magistrates' Court. He was found to be almost three times over the drink drive limit.
He admitted to driving with 99 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, 64 over the limit, and was also ordered to do 120 hours of community work. But he originally claimed to the General Medical Council (GMC, an online list of doctors registered to practice in the UK) he was chewing a betel nut and was not already drunk when buying spirits from a shop.
