A FORMER doctor who was “sexually motivated” in his touching of patients has had an application to rejoin the profession thrown out.

Dr Adekunle Adeosun, a former doctor who worked at GPs and hospitals in Basildon and Thurrock was erased from the Medical Register in July 2014.

He has attempted to be restored as a doctor in the UK, but a tribunal has ruled that his submissions were “lip service”.

Dr Adeosun’s erasure follows a misconduct hearing by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service which found allegations of sexually motivated behaviour by Dr Adeosun over a three-year period.

The patients were at the Great Oaks Clinic, Basildon, Thurrock Hospital, and Wickford’s Dipple Medical Centre.

Dr Adeosun told patients to remove their clothing without reasonable justification before inappropriately touching them.

The panel found the behaviour to be “inappropriately sexually motivated”.

The tribunal heard in his application for restoration that Dr Adeosun had continued to work as a doctor in Nigeria and established his own private hospital, but it closed in 2020.

In submissions, the doctor claimed risk of reoffending would be “negligible”.

However, in his findings, legally qualified chair Damian Cooper said Dr Adeosun had shown “contempt” for the General Medical Council and did not understand the seriousness of the findings against him.

Mr Cooper also said that Dr Adeosun had, in the seven years since being struck-off, taken no courses to address his sexual behaviour, with “no meaningful efforts of remediation”.

He said: “He had failed to take that opportunity until the point of his decision to apply for restoration to the UK register in 2020, which he admitted in oral evidence was prompted by the failure of his business in Nigeria and his need for money.

“Having made that decision, in the tribunal’s view he had paid no more than lip service to addressing the fundamental issues raised in this case.”

Mr Cooper said that Dr Adeosun, who previously ran the South Essex Emergency Doctors Service until 2007, would still pose a risk to patients and refused the application.