In 2023, a doctor and a nurse were caught in a spicy “compromising position” when they were actually supposed to be performing surgery on a patient.
Married doctor Suhail Anjum, 44, was working at Tameside Hospital in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, on September 16, 2023. During a surgery, the consultant anaesthetist asked a nurse to keep an eye on the patient so he could take a “comfort break”, but he took himself to another operating theatre to sleep with a woman only identified as Nurse C.
Nurse NT caught them in the act, with the General Medical Council’s Andrew Molloy recalling her experience in a recent tribunal hearing.
“She described seeing Nurse C with her trousers around her knee area with her underwear on display and Dr Anjum was in the process of tying up the cord of his trousers,” he relayed.
“Nurse NT was shocked and quickly walked through the theatre to the exit doors. Dr Anjum returned to theatre five and was gone for about eight minutes before his return. It is right to say that no harm came to the patient when Dr Anjum was absent from the theatre and the procedure went on without further incident.”
Following an internal investigation, the doctor was sacked in February 2024 – but the story did not end there.
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Suhail Anjum has been cleared to return to work
After the scandal in 2023, Suhail Anjum returned to his native Pakistan, where he continued to work as a doctor. But wanting to return to the NHS, he appeared before the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) last week.
During the hearing, Suhail Anjum referenced a “stressful time” for his family following the birth of his youngest child in January 2023.
“Our daughter was born premature, with a very, very low birth weight. My wife had a very traumatic delivery, it was quite a stressful experience. We failed to connect as a couple during that time,” he said. “It took a toll on my personal life, my mental health and wellbeing, and my work at the hospital.”
A U.K. doctor at Tameside Hospital in Greater Manchester, named Dr. Suhail Anjum, left a male patient mid-surgery to have sex with a nurse in an adjacent empty theater room.
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He further acknowledged that it was “unfair” to ask the anaesthetic nurse to cover for him, saying he put her in an “awkward” position.
He added: “It was quite shameful, to say the least. I only have myself to blame. I let down everybody, not just my patient and myself, but the trust and how it would look. I let down my colleagues who gave me a lot of respect.”
Though the panel did condemn his behaviour, it argued that Suhail Anjum suffered “a momentary lapse of judgement rather than a sustained pattern of behaviour.”
He was cleared to resume his medical duties here in the UK.
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