DoctorGeneral Medical Council 4455147
Tijjani Shehu
Tijjani Shehu, doctor (General Medical Council 4455147). Most recent decision: Suspended from practice (the regulator’s term: suspension) on 10 December 2025 by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service.
Current status
Most recent outcome: Suspended from practice (the regulator’s term: suspension) for 6 months, decided 10 December 2025 by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service. This sanction period has elapsed.
What does “suspended from practice” mean?
A suspension is a fixed-term pause on the right to practise. The practitioner cannot work in the regulated profession during the suspension. At the end of the period the suspension may be extended, replaced with another sanction, or lifted on review.
View the source determination on Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service
Decisions and hearings
Medical Practitioners Tribunal Servicesubstantive hearing
Suspended from practice· 6 months(period elapsed)
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Shehu, a locum Consultant Physician, failed to provide adequate care to Patient A on 28 December 2022, including failing to consider diagnoses other than deep vein thrombosis, take an adequate history, arrange appropriate investigations, or implement an adequate treatment plan. Patient A died the following day. Dr Shehu admitted all the allegations. The tribunal found limited insight and incomplete remediation, and imposed a 6-month suspension with a review hearing directed.
Practitioner details
- Qualified in
- Nigeria
- Year qualified
- 1984
- Specialty
- Acute Medicine
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