A DOCTOR at Taunton's Musgrove Park Hospital inappropriately touched a woman colleague and made sexual comments to her, a tribunal has heard.

Dr Faisal Rauf Khan, a urology registrar in a flexible cystoscopy clinic, is alleged to have touched her hip; asked if she was wearing any pants and said he would find out later; become aroused after rubbing his groin against her behind; held her face; stroked her cheek; and attempted to kiss her lips.

He is denying the allegations at the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service impairment by reason of misconduct hearing, which began on Monday in St James's Building, Oxford Street, Manchester, and is due to last until Friday, September 1.

Dr Faisal has admitted he asked his colleague if she was alright and that he kissed her on the cheek.

But he denies the other charges brought under the Medical Act 1983.

The alleged incidents are said to have taken place on May 7 and 8 last year at the Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust hospital.

Dr Khan came to this country after qualifying at the University of Peshawar, in Pakistan.

The case is being heard by a panel of three, with the legally qualified chairman Kim Kneale and medical adjudicators Professor Irving Benjamin and Dr Meenakshi Verma.