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Doctor Hid 14 Crimes, Including Death Threat
12 Jul
Summary
- Consultant doctor concealed 14 Australian convictions.
- Offences included stalking and threatening to kill.
- Doctor erased from medical register for dishonesty.
A consultant NHS doctor, Dr. Salah-ud-Din Taj, has been removed from the medical register after concealing 14 criminal convictions from Australia. These offenses, which occurred over four months, included stalking and making death threats. Dr. Taj qualified in Pakistan in 1996 and worked in Australia from 2007 to 2017, where he received a community correction order for his crimes.
In 2018, Dr. Taj applied for registration in the UK but falsely denied any convictions. He repeated these lies when seeking employment with North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust the following year. He practiced as a locum consultant in acute medicine at Lincoln County Hospital since 2022. The General Medical Council discovered his past, launching an investigation into his dishonest practices and his claims about his time in Australia.
A panel from the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determined that Dr. Taj's omissions were intentionally misleading. They noted that even a layperson would understand the seriousness of 14 convictions spanning four months. Consequently, his name has been erased from the medical register, concluding his practice in the UK.
