A FORMER Buckinghamshire doctor who was suspended for sending ‘sexually-motivated’ messages to female colleagues is allowed to practice again – with conditions.

Dr Kalyana Saripalli, formerly of Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury, was suspended in 2016 after an employment tribunal heard he has texting female colleagues in a sexual manner five years prior.

The tribunal found her had harassed two female colleagues while working at as a Senior House Officer at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust, and one female colleague whilst working at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in the Accident and Emergency Department.

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Dr Saripalli, who was 39 at the time, admitted the allegations of harassment but denied they were sexually motivated.

However, the tribunal dismissed his claims and found that his behaviour was sexually motivated and that it ‘portrayed an element of coercion and unwarranted persistence and was such as to bring the medical profession into disrepute’.

As a result, his registration was suspended for 12 months to ‘promote and maintain public confidence in the profession’.

In a recent tribunal in December 2022, it has been ruled that Dr Saripalli remains ‘impaired’ so he can continue to work but only with conditions.

The chair found that though he had ‘developed significantly between 2016 and 2019’, his progress had ‘somewhat stalled’ since then.

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The conditions include a reflective statement from Dr Saripalli in which he addresses his working relationships, evidence he has kept his medical knowledge up to date, a reflective statement on his misconduct issues, letters from professional colleagues into his behaviour, and any other evidence he feels will help the next tribunal in reviewing his case.

The doctor has actually been deemed ‘fit to practise with limitations’ since 2017. It was deemed he remained impaired at that point but could return to work.

In 2018 and 2019, two separate tribunals came to the same conclusion and in 2020 a hearing heard the tribunal chair was ‘still not satisfied that Dr Saripalli had made a great deal of progress’.

Despite being allowed to practise, Dr Saripalli was not employed until 2021 where he now works as a Specialist Doctor in Emergency Medicine at Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire.

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A doctor at the hospital told the tribunal: “Dr Saripalli has been performing his role as expected of a doctor in NHS. He has been complying with Trust values and has not given any cause for concern”.