A GP took “increasingly desperate” actions to get a patient to change practices, including offering a bribe and faking an assault, a UK tribunal has found.

Dr Gurkirit Kalkat also paid more than $80,000 to drug rehabilitation centres in an effort to stop the patient complaining about his prescribing and medication monitoring, according to the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service.

Following a hearing which concluded on 16 July, the tribunal suspended the GP for 12 months over his attempts to convince the patient to register at a different practice.

In a consultation in early 2020, Dr Kalkat brought the patient — known as Patient A in the judgement — into his rooms, then hit himself in the chest and yelled out that he was being attacked.