A doctor who worked for Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust has been found to have committed dozens of misconduct offences, including forcing himself on a nurse twice.
Dr Arunoday Arunoday has been found to have carried out multiple acts which the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) has said amounted to sexual misconduct.
The doctor had been working as a consultant Royal Oldham Hospital - one of several sites ran by the trust, including Bury's Fairfield General Hospital - and has not been criminally convicted of offences relating to the misconduct incidents.
A tribunal hearing, which concluded on Friday (November 21), has determined that Dr Arunoday committed the majority of the allegations made against him, and that his fitness to practice as a medical professional is currently 'impaired' due to this.
Submissions made on behalf of the General Medical Council (GMC) state it is 'self-evident' that the findings amount to 'serious misconduct, there being two incidents of rape'.
The GMC submitted that this was a course of conduct occurring over multiple months and involving abuse of a senior position and the targeting of Nurse A.
It has now been determined and found proved that, over around three months in 2021, the doctor sent sexual messages to the nurse, named only as Nurse A and who cannot be identified for legal reasons.
Some of the messages contained images of his genitals and included several inappropriate questions and requests from him.
He also told the nurse that he 'wanted to do sexual things' to them, was watching their location, and made other explicit comments.
After this, he video called Nurse A and showed them his penis and asked them to have sex in an on-call room.
While at work, Dr Arunoday tried to kiss Nurse A and had sex with them, throughout which it is further alleged that he ignored them telling him to stop, placed his arm across their chest and put his body weight on top of them.
There was also an allegation that he covered the nurse's mouth, but this has not been determined.
The MPTS found that he did commit the other allegations around this incident without the nurse's consent and did not reasonably believe that they had consented.
It has also been proven that Dr Arunoday turned up at their home uninvited, where he tried to kiss them, and again had sexual intercourse with them.
On this occasion, he also touched Nurse A's chest, a part of the allegations which Dr Arunoday admitted.
The MPTS allegations state that during this, he ignored them telling him to stop, pushed them onto a bed by their shoulders and pinned them there, all of which was allegedly without consent or reasonable belief of consent.
The final incident detailed in the report saw him ask Nurse A if they wanted to have sex with him, ask if he could kiss Nurse A, put his hand on Nurse A's leg, and stroke Nurse A's hand.
The MPTS said that Dr Arunoday's actions constituted sexual harassment, were sexually motivated and were an abuse of his more senior position.
The GMC submitted that there had been some evidence of 'victim blaming' or seeking to undermine the complainant in this case.
However, Dr Arunoday does not accept the Tribunal's determination.
The MPTS determined that Dr Arunoday will have his name erased from the Medical Register, meaning he cannot practice medicine.
Concerns about 'repetition' were also voiced in the MPTS findings.
The report said: "The Tribunal has concluded that Dr Arunoday's conduct fell so far short of the standards of conduct reasonably to be expected of a doctor as to amount to misconduct.
"The Tribunal considered that it had not been provided with any evidence of insight or remediation on the part of Dr Arunoday, who maintained his denial and did not accept the factual findings of the Tribunal.
"In light of this absence and its finding that serious sexual misconduct is particularly difficult to remediate, [the Tribunal] determined that there was a risk of repetition.
"The Tribunal considered that whilst Dr Arunoday's actions occurred some period of time ago, given the seriousness of this misconduct, the passing of time was not relevant in its assessment of current impairment.
"The Tribunal has therefore determined that Dr Arunoday's fitness to practise is impaired by reason of misconduct."