Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — review hearing
NMC panel strikes off mental health nurse Eruore Obibi over patient safety failings
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee has ordered that mental health nurse Eruore Augustina Obibi be struck off the register, finding continuing impairment over patient safety failings and inappropriate behaviour towards a patient.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 1 May 2026 · Updated 10 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 Eruore Augustina Obibi, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 94I0385E).
Decision date: 1 May 2026 · Hearing started 1 May 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that mental health nurse Eruore Augustina Obibi's fitness to practise remained impaired when it reviewed her suspension order on 1 May 2026. The original charges, found proved, included failing to preserve patient safety, failing to carry out one-to-one observation of a patient, and behaving inappropriately towards a patient in breach of professional boundaries. Citing her disengagement and lack of insight, the panel replaced the suspension with a striking-off order effective 12 June 2026.
Charges
Charges found proved at the original hearing: on 20 March 2022, failed to preserve patient safety by leaving the door to the Unit unlocked; on 28 April 2022, failed to provide care in accordance with Patient A's care plan and/or risk assessment by failing to undertake adequately, or at all, 1:1 observation for Patient A; between 28 April and 2 May 2022, failed to preserve patient safety by leaving keys to the Unit unattended; on 5 May 2022, behaved inappropriately towards Patient A using crude language and gestures; and those actions breached professional boundaries.
Findings
At a substantive order review meeting on 1 May 2026, the panel found Mrs Obibi's fitness to practise remains impaired on both public protection and public interest grounds. It found she had disengaged from the NMC, provided no further evidence of insight, remediation or strengthened practice, and remained liable to repeat matters of the kind found proved. The panel determined that a conditions of practice order would not be workable and a further suspension would serve no useful purpose, and concluded the only sanction that would adequately protect the public and serve the public interest was a striking-off order, taking effect at the end of 12 June 2026 upon expiry of the current suspension order.
Source
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