Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — review hearing
NMC review panel strikes off nurse Rose Nkemdirim over medication record failures
A Nursing and Midwifery Council review panel has directed that nurse Rose Linda Chinwenma Nkemdirim be struck off the register from 8 August 2026, after finding she had not engaged with the regulator or addressed misconduct involving controlled-drug and medication records.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 24 June 2026 · Updated 9 July 2026
Erasure (struck off the register)
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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 Rose Linda Chinwenma Nkemdirim, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 03I0967O).
Decision date: 24 June 2026 · Hearing started 24 June 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee decided at a review hearing on 24 June 2026 to replace nurse Rose Linda Chinwenma Nkemdirim's suspension order with a striking-off order, taking effect on 8 August 2026. The original charges, found proved in April 2025, concerned failures in controlled-drug records and medication administration records involving residents in her care. The panel found she had not engaged with the NMC since the substantive hearing and provided no evidence of insight, training or strengthened practice.
Charges
Charges found proved at the original hearing included: disposing of Resident A's 39 morphine tablets without obtaining a countersignature from a second nurse in the controlled drug book; disposing of Resident A's bottle of morphine liquid without recording it in the controlled drug book; pre-signing a MAR chart indicating medication had been administered when it had not; inaccurately recording an oxycodone balance as 80ml when it should have been 98ml; failing to sign a MAR chart for administered medication; amending recorded balance quantities of Resident B's oxycodone without recording that she had done so or a rationale; and entering words into a resident's care plan to the effect that they stayed awake at night watching pornography.
Findings
This was the second review of a suspension order originally imposed for 9 months on 9 April 2025 and extended by 6 months at the first review on 7 January 2026. The panel found her fitness to practise remains impaired on public protection and public interest grounds, noting she had not engaged with the NMC since the substantive hearing, did not attend, and provided no evidence of insight, reflection, remediation, training or strengthened practice. It concluded a further suspension would serve no purpose, that the criteria for allowing the order to lapse with impairment were not met, and that the only sanction that would adequately protect the public and serve the public interest is a striking-off order. The panel directed the registrar to strike her name off the register, taking effect on the expiry of the current suspension order at the end of 8 August 2026.
Source
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