Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — review hearing
NMC panel strikes off nurse Mohamad Kanu after medication error and boundary findings
The Nursing and Midwifery Council's Fitness to Practise Committee has replaced nurse Mohamad Kanu's suspension with a striking-off order, after he failed to engage with the regulator following findings including a medication error, lack of candour and a breach of professional boundaries.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 13 July 2026 · Updated 17 July 2026
Erasure (struck off the register)
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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 Mohamad Kanu, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 07A0015C).
Decision date: 13 July 2026 · Hearing started 13 July 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee decided to replace Mohamad Kanu's suspension order with a striking-off order at a review hearing on 13 July 2026. His fitness to practise remained impaired: he had not engaged with the NMC or provided evidence of remediation since a 2025 hearing over a medication error, a lack of candour and a breach of professional boundaries. The striking-off order takes effect at the end of 19 August 2026.
Charges
The charges found proved at the original hearing were that, while employed by Harbour Suite between 8 May 2023 and 20 June 2023, he gave Chlordiazepoxide to a patient instead of Paliperidone; did not inform the patient he had administered incorrect medication for approximately 2-3 hours and did not complete an incident report, demonstrating a lack of candour; did not carry out a risk assessment, or establish whether one had been carried out, before allowing a patient to go on leave; and asked Patient A for their contact number and offered to meet them after discharge, in breach of professional boundaries.
Findings
At this second review of a suspension order originally imposed on 18 July 2025, the panel found his fitness to practise remains impaired on both public protection and public interest grounds. He had not engaged with the NMC since the substantive hearing, provided no evidence of remediation, training or strengthened practice, and the panel determined he remains liable to repeat matters of the kind found proved. Concluding that no lesser sanction would adequately protect the public, the panel replaced the suspension order with a striking-off order, taking effect upon the expiry of the current order at the end of 19 August 2026.
Source
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