Doctor who sexually harassed female colleagues is struck off for serious misconduct

An NHS surgeon who sexually harassed two female doctors and berated a third over her rainbow coloured Pride lanyard has been struck off the UK medical register.

Hosam Halim, 48, behaved inappropriately towards one resident doctor on several occasions during three months in 2021 at the Royal Free Hospital in London, telling her how pretty she looked and repeatedly asking her out, despite her refusals.

At one point he got into a lift with her to ask her for a drink, and when she demurred, saying she had ordered an Uber, he told her to cancel it. Among other comments he admitted making at the outset of his medical practitioners tribunal hearing, he told her that as a woman she shouldn’t work, that if he were married to her he would not let her work, and that if he were in charge of the country he would make it illegal for her to work. He also admitted …