Surrayya Kamal Najeeb

Introduction

Dr Surrayya Kamal Najeeb is a doctor who was registered with the General Medical Council under number 7666217. On 9 September 2026, at the conclusion of a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) substantive hearing that had opened on 24 August 2026 and ended on 9 September 2026, the tribunal determined that her name be erased from the Medical Register — the sanction commonly described as being struck off — and imposed an immediate order of suspension. The decision followed findings that her fitness to practise was impaired on two grounds, dishonesty and deficient professional performance, after the tribunal found that she had misrepresented her role, performance concerns and her qualification status.

Background Information

The published determination records little of Najeeb’s personal or professional history beyond her status as a doctor on the GMC register. What it does record is the shape of the regulatory case brought against her: the General Medical Council’s allegations centred on a move from consultant to registrar duties, concerns about her clinical performance, and the status of an advanced life support qualification, while a GMC assessment was said to have identified deficient professional performance. The determination does not record details of her training history, her places of work, or the patients involved.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Allegations vs. findings. The findings are regulatory findings by an MPTS tribunal on the civil standard (the balance of probabilities). No criminal conviction is recorded in the determination.

The GMC alleged that Najeeb had been dishonest about a move from consultant to registrar duties, about concerns regarding her clinical performance, and about the status of an advanced life support qualification. Separately, it alleged deficient professional performance identified by a GMC assessment. Two parts of the case did not result in findings against her, and they form part of the record alongside those that did: one allegation concerning written confirmation was withdrawn, and the alleged failure to disclose non-progression to course testing was not proved.

On the remaining allegations, the tribunal found dishonest misrepresentation of Najeeb’s role, of the performance concerns and of her qualification status, together with deficient professional performance, and it found impairment on both grounds. In arriving at its outcome the tribunal found no meaningful insight into the dishonesty and insufficient remediation of the clinical deficiencies, and concluded that conditions or suspension would not adequately protect the public. It accepted that actual serious harm had not been caused, while finding a risk of future harm.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The immediate consequence was the tribunal’s sanction, imposed on 9 September 2026: erasure from the Medical Register, with an immediate order of suspension so that the direction takes effect without delay. The tribunal’s reasoning for selecting erasure rather than a lesser sanction was expressly protective — it concluded that conditions or suspension would not adequately protect the public, having found insufficient insight and remediation and a risk of future harm. The determination records the regulator’s findings rather than press coverage or public commentary, and no public statements by Najeeb are recorded in it; the outcome was published by MedicWatch on 9 September 2026 and last checked on 22 September 2026.

Current Status

As determined on 9 September 2026, Surrayya Kamal Najeeb is erased from the Medical Register and is struck off, with an immediate order of suspension in force. Erasure means the regulator has directed removal from the register, so that the practitioner is no longer permitted to practise the profession in the UK; the decision explains when the direction takes effect and the appeal provisions that apply, and the official register should be checked for her current registration status. Unless a successful appeal or review were to change the outcome, she cannot work as a doctor in the United Kingdom.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The erasure ends Najeeb’s ability to practise medicine in the UK. The tribunal’s route to that outcome was defined by what it found missing: no meaningful insight into the dishonesty findings and insufficient remediation of the clinical deficiencies underlying the deficient professional performance finding. Those gaps carried more weight than the absence of actual serious harm — the tribunal accepted that no actual serious harm had been caused, but found a risk of future harm and held that erasure was required because conditions or suspension would not adequately protect the public. For a doctor whose case involved dishonesty about her role, her performance and her qualifications, the finding of insufficient insight and remediation is what converted regulatory findings into permanent removal from the register.

Sources

• MedicWatch, “MPTS orders Dr Surrayya Najeeb’s erasure over dishonesty and performance findings”, 9 September 2026.source