Health and Care Professions Council determination — substantive hearing
HCPTS panel strikes off Nabeela Anjum after terrorism convictions
The biomedical scientist was struck off after two convictions for failing to disclose information about a planned terrorist attack.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 18 July 2025 · Updated 23 September 2026
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The regulator directed removal from the register in this decision. The decision explains when the direction takes effect and any appeal provisions. Check the official register for the practitioner's current registration status.
Concerning Nabeela Anjum, biomedical scientist (Health and Care Professions Council BS43047).
Decision date: 18 July 2025 · Hearing started 17 July 2025 and ended 18 July 2025
In plain English
The HCPTS panel considered biomedical scientist Nabeela Anjum's convictions for failing to disclose information that could have helped prevent a planned terrorist attack. It found no insight, remorse or remediation and a real risk of repetition, with serious potential harm to the public. The panel concluded that no lesser sanction was sufficient and struck her off.
Charges
Ms Anjum was convicted at Leeds Crown Court on 14 May 2024 of two counts of failing to disclose information about terrorism. The convictions concerned her failure to tell police information that she knew or believed could materially assist in preventing a planned terrorist attack.
Findings
The panel accepted the convictions and found Ms Anjum's fitness to practise impaired on personal and public grounds. It found no insight, remorse, apology or remediation, a real risk of repetition, and grave potential harm to patients and the wider public. It concluded that only removal from the register could protect the public and maintain confidence.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Aggravating factors
Lack of insight, remorse or apology; lack of remediation; and service-user harm or potential service-user harm, including serious potential harm to patients and the wider public.
Source
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