Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — investigation committee
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 Uchechukwu Chinyelu Nrabalu, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 23A1749O).
Decision date: 8 April 2026 · Hearing started 2 April 2025 and ended 8 April 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Investigating Committee found that Uchechukwu Nrabalu, a registered nurse, had submitted a Computer Based Test result obtained through fraud as part of her application to join the NMC register. She took the test at the Yunnik test centre in Nigeria in May 2022, completing it unusually quickly. The panel directed the Registrar to remove her entry from the register because it had been fraudulently procured.
Charges
That, as part of her application to join the NMC register: (1) submitted or caused to be submitted a Computer Based Test (CBT) result obtained at Yunnik Technologies Limited test centre in Ibadan, Nigeria on 23 May 2022 that had been obtained through fraud, and accordingly her entry on the NMC register was fraudulently procured. Or in the alternative: (2) submitted or caused to be submitted a CBT result obtained at the same test centre on 23 May 2022 that was subsequently declared void by the NMC due to concerns about the manner in which tests were being conducted at the test centre, and accordingly her entry on the NMC register was incorrectly made.
Findings
Pearson VUE identified in March 2023 that the Yunnik test centre in Ibadan had been delivering exams in unusually short times suggestive of fraudulent behaviour, likely linked to proxy testing. Miss Nrabalu completed her CBT on 23 May 2022 in 5.15 minutes (Numeracy, 30 minutes allowed) and 13.55 minutes (Clinical, 150 minutes allowed). The panel found that her test times were exceptionally fast compared to global test times. The panel found inconsistencies in her account of when and by whom annotations to her practice materials were made, and concluded that her version of events was not credible. The panel found Charge 1 proved on the balance of probabilities — that her CBT result had been obtained through fraud — and accordingly directed the Registrar to remove her entry from the register under Article 26(7) of the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001.
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