A doctor who worked at Blackpool Victoria Hospital has been struck off after a medical tribunal found she acted dishonestly and posed a high risk to patient safety.
Dr Surrayya Najeeb, a consultant in acute and respiratory medicine who worked in Blackpool between June 2021 and February 2023, was erased from the medical register following a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service hearing this month.
The tribunal heard concerns had been raised about her clinical performance while she was working at Blackpool. In October 2022, she was told there were concerns about her ability to function at consultant level and was moved to a registrar-level role.
However, the tribunal found that when she later applied for a consultant position at Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn, she failed to disclose the concerns that had been raised and did not tell the hospital that she had been moved to a more junior role.
The panel also found she dishonestly failed to disclose that she had recently failed to demonstrate the required skills on an Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support course and later repeatedly denied that concerns had ever been raised about her performance at Blackpool.
The hearing was told Dr Najeeb, who qualified as a doctor in Pakistan in 1985, did not attend the tribunal and was not represented.
A GMC performance assessment carried out in August 2024 also identified serious concerns about her clinical abilities. Assessors found her professional performance was "unacceptable" in the assessment of patients and clinical management, while her relationships with patients and ability to work with colleagues were classed as a cause for concern.
According to the tribunal determination, assessors found she did not consistently carry out systematic patient assessments, failed to recognise important clinical clues and, in one scenario involving an acutely unwell patient, did not follow an established emergency assessment process, potentially putting a patient's life at risk.
The tribunal found her fitness to practise was impaired by both misconduct and deficient professional performance.
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In its ruling, the panel said Dr Najeeb's dishonesty was persistent, repeated, and premeditated, and that she had attempted to gain the benefits of a senior role by misleading prospective employers.
The tribunal found she had shown no meaningful insight into her actions and had not provided evidence of remediation. It concluded there was a high risk of repetition.
The determination states: "Honesty is at the heart of medical professionalism and is essential for the public to have trust in doctors and the systems they work in."
The panel concluded that allowing Dr Najeeb to remain on the register would present a high risk to public protection and would seriously undermine patient safety, public confidence in the profession and professional standards.
As a result, it ordered that her name be erased from the medical register, with an immediate order imposed.
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