A Mid Wales doctor has been suspended by the General Medical Council because of the potential risk she poses to patients.

Dr Sarah Myhill

Dr Sarah Myhill, whose private practice is based at Llangunllo, near Knighton, was suspended from the medical register until October next year at a GMC review hearing by its Interim Order Panel yesterday.

In April, the former NHS GP, who specialises in treating people with chronic fatigue syndrome, was banned from prescribing certain drugs and told to take down part of her website.

The GMC imposed five conditions for a total of 18 months after she was found to be “potentially putting patients at risk”.

But at a six-month review hearing in London yesterday, the panel said it had now been left with no other choice but to suspend her registration with immediate affect.

Dr Myhill is alleged to have provided “inappropriate” treatment to a patient last year after she recommended vitamin and magnesium injections for suspected chronic fatigue syndrome. A group of eight GPs complained about this patient’s treatment in June 2009.

Yesterday the GMC panel determined that the original order remained necessary but went a step further by suspending the doctor for the remainder of that order.

It said: “In considering this issue the panel has again exercised its own judgment.

“The panel is very concerned that you appear, over a period of time, to have had a clear disregard for good medical practice.

“Your clinical actions and professional behaviour, if substantiated, would indicate that your professional standards may seriously fall short of those expected by the public and good medical practice.”

It added: “In all the circumstances, the panel is satisfied that there are no interim conditions which are workable.”

The panel said the order would be subject to a further review in three months’ time.

Dr Myhill was unavailable for comment on the panel’s ruling earlier today.

By Anwen Evans