A MARRIED and long-serving GP is facing disciplinary action after making unwelcome sexual advances towards six women over six years, stating: "I have bachelor blood in me".

The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service has found more than 30 allegations against Dr Shiv Bagchi, of Sunderland, proven, including that he placed his hand underneath a woman's trouser band, pressed on her groin and that he repeatedly kissed women and told them he loved them.

It had been alleged by the General Medical Council that his fitness to practise was impaired by his misconduct.

Following a two-week hearing by the service, which assesses doctors' fitness to practise, it was found between 2009 and 2015 the 68-year-old had told a woman he got "urges like any man", told a woman that when people make love it had to be someone they knew, and asked women to look at flats with him so he could leave his wife, Angela, who worked as a nurse at his practice.

The service also found proven allegations that Dr Bagchi, who qualified as a doctor in 1971 and set up a GP practice in the Pallion Health Centre, in Sunderland, in 1988, wrote post-it notes which read ‘Crazy B 1 loves Crazy B 2’.

In a report to Dr Bagchi following the tribunal states he told one woman "... it was nice to see her and that gave her ‘a cuddle’. Her evidence was that she thought that this was the first time that you had ‘cuddled’ her and that you used both arms to do so. Her further evidence was that she ‘went really stiff’ and did not reciprocate the ‘hug’. It was after the alleged ‘cuddle’ or ‘hug’ and when Miss A was leaving the room that you untucked her blouse from her trousers."

Although the panel found all six women to be credible witnesses, it concluded allegations that he told one woman that he had dreamt about her "dancing around a pole wearing knee high leather boots to entice patients" not proved.

But the hearing was told how one woman made changes to her daily routines in an attempt to avoid Dr Bagchi's advances and that he expressed his views about "his approach to unsafe and casual sex".

One of the women was subjected to an impromptu medical examination after asking the GP, who had denied many of the allegations, about different types of hernias.

The hearing has been adjourned for the service to consider what disciplinary action to implement.