A plastic surgeon has been suspended after performing liposuction at a private Harley Street clinic without proper registration and lying to inspectors from the health watchdog.
Dr Sayed Mia carried out gynaecomastia procedures – male breast reduction – without the necessary registration with the Care Quality Commission (CQC), a tribunal heard.
During an inspection by the CQC, it was alleged that Dr Mia claimed he was a patient and gave a fake name and contact details.
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service has suspended him for 12 months.
The tribunal heard that on 14 November 2023, Dr Mia, who qualified in South Africa in 1999, was in consultation with a patient at the central London clinic when four CQC inspectors arrived and introduced themselves.
The tribunal heard an inspector “intercepted” Dr Mia, telling him the reason for the visit was “to establish if regulated activities were taking place at the clinic”, after receiving complaints from members of the public.
When asked for his name, Dr Mia told the inspector it was “Ahmed Munda”.
He told the inspector he was having a meeting about a procedure and claimed he was a patient.
The tribunal was told a young man waiting outside the consultation room interrupted and said: “He’s not a patient, he’s a doctor I’ve come to see.”
Source: The Independent, 14 January 2026
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