A DOCTOR has been struck off for working at Barnsley Hospital without having shared information about his role in a case of stillbirth at another hospital.
Dr Aamir Iqbal Malik was working at Mid Yorkshire hospitals in 2015 when he failed to interpret a recording of a foetal heartbeat correctly, failed to recognise it was difficult to interpret and failed to obtain a senior opinion.
The woman, who was 23 and carrying her first child, later delivered a stillborn daughter.
Dr Malik also retrospectively amended the woman’s notes.
A hearing of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service was told he went on to work at Barnsley Hospital on five occasions in January and February 2016 without sharing an exclusion letter which he was required to share with any future employer.
A report of the hearing said: “Even when he was provided with a second copy of the exclusion letter, he failed to share it with Barnsley Hospital out of embarrassment and concern over the impact on his reputation.”
The tribunal found Dr Malik repeatedly put his own interests ahead of his obligations to patients and the profession when he perceived there was a threat to his own interests. It also considered there was a risk of repetition if similar circumstances occurred again.
Dr Malik’s fitness to practice was found to be impaired by reason of his misconduct.
The report said Dr Malik’s misconduct was ‘fundamentally incompatible with continued registration’ and that unless he appealed, his name would be removed from the medical register within 28 days.
It also imposed an immediate order of suspension.
