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Regulatory proceedings concluded by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service have confirmed the formal erasure of Dr Surrayya Kamal Najeeb from the United Kingdom medical register, following proven findings of persistent professional dishonesty and unacceptable clinical performance across acute NHS hospital posts. Dr Najeeb, registered under General Medical Council reference 7666217 and a graduate of Sindh Medical College at the University of Karachi in 1985, faced an immediate order of erasure after panel determinations established that she concealed clinical demotions and failed resuscitation assessments while seeking senior consultant positions. The public hearings, conducted in Manchester between late August and September, exposed a series of undisclosed capability reviews that compromised institutional trust and frontline patient safety.
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The regulatory hearing against Dr Najeeb was heard before Legally Qualified Chair Mrs Cathie Seville, Lay Tribunal Member Mrs Lorna Taylor, and Registrant Tribunal Member Dr Laura Florence. Dr Najeeb chose not to attend the proceedings and was not legally represented, prompting the panel to grant an application by GMC Counsel Ms Harriet Tighe to proceed in her absence under fitness-to-practise rules. The formal inquiry traced Dr Najeeb’s career from her full UK registration in December 2018 to her appointment as a locum consultant in acute medicine at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in June 2021.
Tribunal records established that senior clinical managers in Blackpool confronted Dr Najeeb during a formal meeting on 19 October 2022 regarding her clinical performance, informing her that she could no longer practise at consultant tier and would be moved to a supervised registrar-level role. Instead of disclosing this supervisory intervention, Dr Najeeb submitted an employment application on 28 November 2022 to Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust. Daily Dazzling Dawn understands from formal tribunal documentation that her application falsely claimed continuous service as a respiratory consultant and deliberately omitted the downgrade imposed by Blackpool leadership.
Further evidence presented to the tribunal revealed that Dr Najeeb attended an interview with Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn on 1 December 2022 without disclosing crucial training failures. Just forty-eight hours prior, on 29 November 2022, she had undertaken an Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support course where instructors determined she failed to demonstrate core competencies and refused to advance her to the practical testing stage. Despite these failures, Dr Najeeb took up her post as a locum consultant in acute medicine at the King's Lynn trust in March 2023.
Daily Dazzling Dawn learned that on 12 December 2023, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Medical Director and Responsible Officer Dr Rebecca Martin convened a formal meeting to investigate discrepancies regarding Dr Najeeb's prior employment. During that encounter, Dr Najeeb repeatedly denied any knowledge of performance concerns at Blackpool, denied that she had been demoted from consultant to registrar, and claimed never to have received formal correspondence confirming the sanction. Queen Elizabeth Hospital leadership escalated the matter to the General Medical Council on 22 December 2023, initiating immediate restrictions on her duties before she left the trust in February 2024.
A formal GMC performance assessment conducted in August 2024 identified widespread deficits, determining that Dr Najeeb’s clinical assessment skills and diagnostic management of acutely unwell patients fell well below acceptable medical standards. Assessors documented multiple failures to recognise critical clinical indicators, including an emergency case scenario where established assessment algorithms were ignored, creating serious risks to patient welfare.
The tribunal concluded that Dr Najeeb’s repeated omissions across multiple NHS trusts were deliberate, sustained, and calculated to secure senior clinical status and remuneration. Finding her fitness to practise impaired by reason of both misconduct and deficient professional performance, the panel ordered her permanent erasure from the register to uphold public confidence in the medical profession.
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