A PHARMACIST has been struck off after waging a campaign of harassment against other healthcare professionals.

Neelu Chaudhari, of Peel Drive in Clayhall, set up a series of websites alleging several medical staff at King George Hospital in Ilford had been negligent leading up to the death of her baby niece, Sunaina Chaudhari, in 2000.

Mrs Chaudhari also alleged the baby had been murdered and that those responsible had then attempted a cover-up. Her allegations also included staff at Great Ormond Street Hospital in central London.

She even organised a press conference in Delhi, India to gain international attention for her campaign.

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain decided to remove Mrs Chaudhari from its register, preventing her from working as a pharmacist in this country, at a meeting of its disciplinary committee on Thursday October 15.

The committee's chairman, John Burrow, said that although there was no evidence of any criminal convictions against Mrs Chaudhari, she had been subject to a number of sanctions including a permanent restraining order imposed by the High Court.

Mr Barrow said: “Mrs Chaudhari's involvement in perpetuating, over a long period of time, extreme allegations against fellow healthcare professionals in the face of an overwhelming body of independent evidence to the contrary, the fact that she had brought down on herself civil injunctions and had breached undertakings given to the High Court would, in our view, undermined public confidence if she were allowed to practise as a pharmacist.

“She has caused mental suffering and harassment to fellow healthcare professionals and there is a continuing risk that she will repeat this misconduct. In our view the just, fair, necessary and proportionate sanction is removal.”

Mrs Chaudhari has three months to appeal the decision.