Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — review hearing
Struck off the register
The regulator’s term: erasure
What does “struck off the register” mean?
Being struck off (the regulator calls this "erasure") removes the practitioner from the register. They are no longer permitted to practise this profession in the UK. Erasure can be reviewed after a minimum of five years, but is otherwise indefinite.
Concerning Gines Nsamba Mabonzo Younga, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 06A1231E).
Decision date: 17 March 2026 · Hearing started 17 March 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee directed a striking-off order against Gines Nsamba Mabonzo Younga, a registered nurse and health visitor from Plymouth, on 17 March 2026 at a substantive order review meeting. She had been on a conditions of practice order over safeguarding and record-keeping failures from late 2019 in her health visitor role, including failing to investigate or escalate an injury to a child, not recognising faltering growth as a safeguarding concern, and inaccurate clinical records. The panel concluded she had shown limited insight and not engaged with remediation, and the striking-off order will take effect on 26 April 2026.
Charges
The original charges proved at the substantive hearing concerned safeguarding and record-keeping failures while Mrs Younga worked as a health visitor: having been informed on 28 November 2019 that Child A had sustained an injury, she failed to investigate, assess for possible neglect or abuse, escalate to Child Protection Services, report to social care, contact a paediatrician, seek supervisor advice, or accurately record the injury location. She failed to recognise Child A's faltering growth as a safeguarding issue and failed to access clinical supervision. On 1 October 2019 she inaccurately recorded in Child B's notes that a piece of sponge was found in Child B's uterus. Between September and December 2019 she repeatedly failed to comply with employer record-keeping policy and failed to ensure her electronic and paper diaries were compatible. She failed to record meetings concerning Child F.
Findings
The panel found Mrs Younga's fitness to practise remains impaired. The panel concluded her insight remained limited and self-focussed, that she had not provided a reflective piece or testimonial as suggested by previous panels, that she had referred to her conduct as 'a mistake' despite the charges being similar repeated incidents over a period of time, and that she had failed to address how she would do things differently in future or the most serious safeguarding charges. The panel determined a continuing finding of impairment was required on both public protection and public interest grounds.
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