GP who asked Muslim woman to remove her veil ‘because he was struggling to understand her’ is struck off for continuing to work while suspended

A GP who continued working after being suspended for asking a Muslim woman to remove her veil has been struck off.

Dr Keith Wolverson was suspended for misconduct after he repeatedly asked the woman to remove her niqab during an appointment, which she eventually did. 

He later said it was because she ‘spoke poor English’ and he was ‘struggling to understand her’.

But her English was fluent and native, a tribunal found, and his response to the

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