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Andrew North
Last updated: 2026-10-18T09:32:27.303Z
- Practitioner name
- Andrew North
- Name as recorded
- Andrew North
- Profession
- Medical practitioner (general practitioner)
- Decision date
- 2012-07-20
- Offence category
- Sexual misconduct with a patient; lying to the regulator
- Offence
- He had a three-year sexual relationship (1999 to 2002) with a woman he was treating as her GP. When his former wife complained in 2011 he signed an 'ardent denial' to the Board, denying the affair three times and attacking his former wife's credibility, and recanted only when the patient confirmed the relationship. No criminal charges. Disciplinary grounds established, including a false statement to the Board's investigator.
- Outcome
- Reprimand; 3 months' suspension, itself suspended after one month on conditions (boundary counselling, Board access to his patient and Medicare records for 2 years); reprimand removed from the public register after 2 years; Board's costs. QCAT (Judge Fleur Kingham, Deputy President, with Dr Kong Goh, Fiona Petty and Dr John Waller) accepted the jointly proposed orders and limited how long the reprimand stays on the public register.
- Outcome type
- Suspended
- Outcome length
- 1 month actual (3 months nominal)
- Category
- Not recorded
- Tribunal
- Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal
- Case name
- Medical Board of Australia v North [2012] QCAT 546
- Citation
- [2012] QCAT 546
- Tribunal decision date
- 2012-07-20
- State
- QLD
- Tribunal city
- Not recorded
- National board
- Medical Board of Australia
- Registration status
- Not recorded
- Official outcome (tribunal/board)
- Suspended 1 month actual (3 months nominal)
- Source confidence
- Not recorded
- Notes
- Permanently barred: No Source: CaseChat AU, 2012-07-20
Decision-makers
- Judge Fleur Kingham (Deputy President) · · Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal
- Dr Kong Goh · · Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal
- Fiona Petty · · Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal
- Dr John Waller · · Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal
Sources
https://casechat.au/cases/au/medical-board-of-australia-v-north