Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — substantive hearing
NMC orders David Allister Bradley struck off following common-assault conviction
The NMC ordered striking off after a common-assault conviction and found remediation insufficient. An earlier sexual-assault conviction had been quashed on appeal.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 8 September 2026 · Updated 22 September 2026
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Concerning David Allister Bradley, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 84I0002N).
Decision date: 8 September 2026 · Hearing started 8 September 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee ordered David Allister Bradley to be struck off following a common-assault conviction involving a colleague. An earlier sexual-assault conviction had been quashed on appeal. The panel acknowledged his apology and training but found incomplete insight and a significant risk of repetition, including similar previous disciplinary concerns. It accepted a consensual determination and imposed interim suspension to cover the appeal period.
Charges
The admitted charge concerned a 17 December 2024 conviction for common assault after conduct towards a female colleague while on duty, including attempting to pull down her scrub trousers. The earlier sexual-assault conviction was quashed on appeal and replaced with common assault. The source records a four-month prison sentence suspended for one year and £500 compensation; it does not establish a surviving sexual-assault conviction.
Findings
The NMC panel accepted a consensual determination, found impairment on public protection and public interest grounds and ordered striking off. It found psychological harm to the colleague and a risk to the working environment. Although it acknowledged an apology, some insight and professional-boundaries training, it found remediation insufficient and significant repetition risk, noting similar conduct only six months after a previous final warning expired. An 18-month interim suspension covers the appeal period; absent an appeal, the striking-off order replaces it 28 days after written notification.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
• There is evidence of insight demonstrated by Mr Bradley including an apology to Person A. • Mr Bradley has undertaken a training course in the area of professional boundaries.
Aggravating factors
• Conduct which recklessly put people receiving care at risk of harm. • Mr Bradley was in a senior position to Person A. • Mr Bradley received a suspended custodial sentence until December 2025. • Relevant previous disciplinary findings in that the incident upon which the conviction is based took place six months after the expiry of a final warning issued to Mr Bradley for similar inappropriate/unprofessional behaviour towards other female colleagues.
Source
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