4FWM-3SC5-CEVS-XCB4
Andrew Churchyard
Last updated: 2026-10-04T10:29:42.459Z
- Practitioner name
- Andrew Churchyard
- Name as recorded
- Andrew Churchyard
- Profession
- Doctor
- Decision date
- 2016-02-11
- Offence category
- Indecent assault of patient
- Offence
- Male patients alleged sexual and indecent assaults during neurological consultations. These are allegations; there was no final tribunal finding on these allegations before his death in 2016.
- Outcome
- Medical Board restrictions from 28 May 2015 required a chaperone for male patients. He undertook not to practise on 4 February 2016; the Board suspended registration on 11 February 2016. No final tribunal sanction or permanent exclusion order was made in this record.
- Outcome type
- Suspended
- Outcome length
- Regulatory suspension; no final tribunal order
- Category
- Serious misconduct (public decisions)
- Tribunal
- Not recorded
- Case name
- Not recorded
- Citation
- Not recorded
- Tribunal decision date
- Not recorded
- State
- VIC
- Tribunal city
- Not recorded
- National board
- Medical Board of Australia
- Registration status
- Historical outcome: Suspended. Current registration has not been checked.
- Official outcome (tribunal/board)
- Medical Board restrictions from 28 May 2015 required a chaperone for male patients. He undertook not to practise on 4 February 2016; the Board suspended registration on 11 February 2016. No final tribunal sanction or permanent exclusion order was made in this record.
- Source confidence
- Official regulator timeline; allegations attributed to ABC
- Notes
- The responsible authority for these interim actions was the Medical Board of Australia / Victorian Board, with Ahpra. The official statement does not name individual Board decision-makers. The decision link is a regulator statement, not a tribunal judgment.
Decision-makers
Not identified in the sources available.