A doctor who left the medical records of about 300 patients unsecured in a rented apartment when she moved out has been struck off the UK medical register.
Documents found in the former home of Maryam Mohamed Al Qureshi in Southampton included records of abortions and overdoses and of psychiatric treatment, as well as patients’ names, addresses, and birth dates. The documents, from eight different healthcare providers, covered dates from 1996 to 2013.
Mohamed Al Qureshi, who was known as Victoria Pickles when she qualified from Leeds University in 2006 but changed her name in 2018, was already suspended after a 2022 medical practitioners tribunal found her culpable of failing to provide good clinical care when a patient called the NHS 111 hotline.
That tribunal also found that she had failed …
