Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — substantive hearing
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 Blessing Nneka Nwosu, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 22A1378O).
Decision date: 11 March 2026 · Hearing started 23 February 2026 and ended 11 March 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that registered nurse Blessing Nneka Nwosu had committed serious misconduct on the Neuro Intensive Care Unit at Leeds General Infirmary in 2022, including medication errors, failures to monitor critically ill patients, and dishonestly falsifying observation records. It also found that she dishonestly worked at a care home in 2023 in breach of an interim conditions of practice order. The panel ordered that she be struck off the register and imposed an interim suspension order of 18 months.
Charges
Charges related to Miss Nwosu's practice as a Band 5 Staff Nurse on the Neuro Intensive Care Unit at Leeds General Infirmary between January and August 2022, and to her work at Vicarage Court Care Home in 2023. They included: failing to take adequate steps when Patient A's ventilator became disconnected; failing to administer nimodipine in a timely manner to Patients F and C; failing to escalate Patient B's lumbar drain stopping oscillating; multiple medication, monitoring and observation failures relating to Patients C and D on 23 June 2022; dishonestly retrospectively completing observation charts; medication and controlled drug failures relating to Patient E on 14-15 August 2022; failing to notify her subsequent employer of an interim conditions of practice order; working unsupervised in breach of that order; and dishonesty in both respects.
Findings
All charges were found proved except Charge 4a (failure to ensure a patient at risk of falls was supervised). The panel found dishonesty proved in relation to Charges 5, 12 and 13. The panel determined that the matters found proved amounted to serious misconduct and that Miss Nwosu's fitness to practise was currently impaired on both public protection and public interest grounds. The panel considered that the case fell within the NMC's 'highest risk cases' guidance, given the dishonesty, the deliberate breach of an interim order, the pattern of conduct, and the real risk of serious harm to patients.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
Admissions of wrongdoing during Trust investigation in respect of Charge 9; completed a mandatory reflective account regarding Charge 2a; engagement with the clinical practice educators as a new starter.
Aggravating factors
Conduct which deliberately or recklessly put people receiving care at risk of suffering harm; deliberate breaches of the Code; a pattern of misconduct over a period of time; extremely limited insight; vulnerability of the patients receiving care (Level 2 and Level 3 patients); dishonesty in falsifying patient records to cover up for failing to take necessary observations, potentially causing harm to the patient; dishonesty in failing to disclose an interim conditions of practice order to maintain employment.
Source
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