IVF doctor loses treatment licence

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Mohamed Taranissi must appoint another person to be the licence holder for his Assisted Reproduction and Gynaecology Centre (ARGC) in central London.

A treatment licence will also not be offered for a second clinic, the Reproductive Genetics Institute (RGI), under a decision made by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA).

Mr Taranissi will have to appoint another "Person Responsible" for the ARGC within 21 days from July 19. That person is legally responsible for the clinic.

Mr Taranissi will still be able to treat patients at the clinic and will be its medical director. He indicated that he would not be seeking a treatment licence for the RGI and one has not been offered by the HFEA, according to the HFEA's licence committee determination.

The HFEA's licence committee met earlier this month to discuss Mr Taranissi's licence.

It concluded that he had been in breach of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act by treating "significant numbers" of patients at the RGI without a licence. It also said it did not accept that Mr Taranissi was justified in thinking his ARGC licence covered the RGI.

But it said it accepted Mr Taranissi's explanation for not registering the RGI with the Healthcare Commission as being "inadvertent rather than deliberate".

Last month, the High Court ruled that search warrants used by the watchdog to raid Mr Taranissi's clinics were unlawful.

Mr Taranissi was the subject of a BBC Panorama programme broadcast on the same day as the raids.