GMC fitness-to-practise investigation into Prof. Peter Hindmarsh — public-record summary

Public-record summary of the General Medical Council fitness-to-practise investigation into Professor Peter Hindmarsh, the Crown's insulin expert witness at the 2022–2023 Lucy Letby trial. The MPTS interim-order ruling document is not publicly accessible on the MPTS register following Hindmarsh's voluntary erasure from the GMC register on 14 November 2024. This entry consolidates what mainstream and specialist secondary reporting has placed on the public record: that the GMC opened the FTP investigation on the same day Hindmarsh began giving evidence at the trial in late 2022; that a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service interim-order tribunal imposed severe restrictions on his clinical work, concluding he 'may pose a real risk' to members of the public and that the allegations 'may have the potential to impact on his ability to act as an expert witness'; that the jury was never told; that the Crown Prosecution Service told the defence it would oppose any attempt to disclose the GMC investigation to the jury on the basis that the allegations had not reached a final adjudication; and that Hindmarsh removed himself from the GMC register through voluntary erasure on 14 November 2024, terminating the investigation without any regulatory finding. The non-disclosure is one of the central procedural grounds in the post-conviction CCRC submissions on the insulin counts. Sources: Guardian (Felicity Lawrence and David Conn); Patient Safety Learning hub; The Justice Gap; GB News; Expert Court Reports; The English Chronicle; smithforensic.blogspot.com.