Tasleem Akhtar
Introduction
Tasleem Akhtar was a registered nurse, specialising in adult nursing, whose name stood on the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register under number 87C0838E. On 16 February 2026, at a substantive order review meeting held by the NMC Fitness to Practise Committee, a panel recorded that her fitness to practise remained impaired and imposed a striking-off order, erasing her from the register. The hearing began that same day. The strike-off replaced an existing suspension order of six months. The case concerned her conduct toward four patients during general medical assessments in 2019: among the charges the panel found proved were grabbing a patient’s testicles without clinical justification, making remarks to two patients, and asking each of the four patients to partially undress.
Background Information
The published record identifies Akhtar only by her profession and specialty — nurse, adult nursing — and by her NMC registration number, 87C0838E. It does not name her employers, hometown, age, or family circumstances, and this page does not guess at them.
Her most recent published outcome is the erasure decided on 16 February 2026 by the NMC at a review hearing. MedicWatch’s practitioner profile records her status as “Erased from the register at last register check”, with the entry last verified against the NMC register on 25 July 2026.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Adjudicated vs. alleged. The findings in this section come from a Nursing and Midwifery Council fitness-to-practise panel determination, which decided the charges on the balance of probabilities. Charges found proved are regulatory findings, not criminal convictions; nothing here is a criminal record unless the determination itself states one, and this determination states none.
The proved charges all concern Akhtar’s conduct toward four patients — referred to in the determination as patient A, patient B, patient C and patient D — during general medical assessments between February and November 2019. The MedicWatch summary of the determination reproduces the charge list with some particulars elided, so the account below is limited to the particulars that appear in the published text.
The first charge concerns patient A: around February 2019, Akhtar “grabbed patient A’s testicles without clinical justification”.
Two proved charges record things she said to patients. On 7 November 2019, she said to patient D words to the effect of “oh you’ve got stretch marks.” On 29 November 2019, she said to patient C words to the effect of “oh it’s fine you touched my boobs I will be touching yours later.”
Charge 6, which covers all four patients, found that Akhtar departed from accepted practice when carrying out general medical assessments in that she asked each of the following patients to partially undress: patient A around February 2019, patient B on 26 November 2019, patient C on 29 November 2019, and patient D on 7 November 2019. Charge 7 found that she failed to treat each of those same four patients with dignity when carrying out their general medical assessments, on the same dates.
The published charge list ends: “AND in light of the above, your fitness to practise is impaired by reason of your misconduct.”
The order in force when the case returned to the committee was a suspension order of six months. The review meeting opened on 16 February 2026, and the panel, having recorded fitness to practise as impaired, imposed a striking-off order. The published summary sets out the outcome and the underlying charges but does not reproduce the panel’s fuller reasoning, including any assessment of Akhtar’s insight, remediation, or engagement with the regulatory process; no such material appears in the record this page draws on.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The published record contains no press coverage and no public statements — none from Akhtar, any representative, patients, or campaign groups. MedicWatch, which published both pages cited here, aggregates regulator decisions and states that it does not editorialise the regulator’s findings. The concrete consequence recorded in this case is erasure: the striking-off order removed Akhtar’s entry from the NMC register, ending her registered status. MedicWatch added the determination to its record on 5 May 2026, just under three months after the decision date.
Current Status
Akhtar is struck off the NMC register. The striking-off order was imposed on 16 February 2026, which is the decision date given in the published record; the summary does not state a separate effective date, noting only that the decision explains when the direction takes effect and what appeal provisions apply. No interim order is recorded in the published summary. Her MedicWatch profile, last verified against the NMC register on 25 July 2026, lists her as erased from the register at last register check. No appeal and no application for restoration appear anywhere in the published record.
Impact on Their Career/Life
Erasure ends Akhtar’s ability to practise as a registered nurse in the United Kingdom, since NMC registration is a legal precondition of that role; her entry, 87C0838E, now records erasure. Returning to the register would require a successful restoration application, and after proved misconduct findings involving patients the bar is a demanding one; no such application appears in the published record. The record also contains no information about Akhtar’s employment, location, or circumstances after the strike-off, and nothing on this page should be read as going beyond it.