Overview

• A three-day virtual Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service hearing is scheduled to begin on September 15 and is listed through September 17.
• The panel will decide whether his fitness to practise is impaired and could order erasure from the medical register or other sanctions, with a decision due within 28 days of the hearing’s end.
• Kwan was convicted of attempted murder on October 7, 2024, at Newcastle Crown Court and was sentenced on November 6 to 31 years and five months in prison.
• Prosecutors said he targeted Patrick O’Hara over an inheritance dispute, arranging a bogus home visit and disguising himself as a nurse to deliver a fake Covid jab.
• O’Hara suffered severe injuries requiring weeks of treatment and plastic surgery, and he described being left a ‘shell of an individual’ by the attack.