Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — substantive hearing
Practising with restrictions — 18 months
The regulator’s term: conditions on practice
What does “practising with restrictions” mean?
Conditions of practice allow the practitioner to keep working but only subject to specific restrictions — for example, supervision, limits on certain procedures, or required reporting to the regulator.
Concerning Mollie Nabitaka, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 21H2502E).
Decision date: 31 March 2026 · Hearing started 10 November 2025 and ended 31 March 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee imposed a conditions of practice order on Mollie Nabitaka, a registered adult nurse from Bedfordshire, on 31 March 2026. The committee found multiple charges of lack of competence proved, relating to medication administration failures, poor record keeping, infection control breaches and inappropriate conduct towards colleagues at Bedford Hospital NHS Trust between 2022 and 2023. The order lasts 18 months and will be reviewed before it expires.
Charges
Between 10 May 2022 and 14 October 2023, while employed as a Band 5 nurse at Bedford Hospital NHS Trust, Mollie Nabitaka failed to demonstrate the standards of knowledge, skill and judgement required to practise without supervision. Charges found proved include: multiple medication administration failures (including failure to administer insulin, tinzaparin and other medications at prescribed times); failure to conduct timely drug rounds and patient observations; failure to conduct adequate handovers; poor infection control (using the same insulin pen on multiple patients); inappropriate conduct towards colleagues; and failure to maintain adequate patient records.
Findings
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found multiple charges of lack of competence proved and determined that Mollie Nabitaka's fitness to practise was currently impaired. The panel imposed a conditions of practice order for 18 months. The panel determined that conditions would be workable, relevant, proportionate and practicable, and that there was a realistic prospect that the areas of clinical concern could be addressed through conditions. The panel also imposed an interim conditions of practice order for 18 months to protect the public during the appeal period.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
• Undertaking of nursing training occurred during the Covid-19 pandemic • No evidence of attitudinal concerns • Clinical competencies are remediable • You were newly qualified at the time of the concerns
Aggravating factors
• Conduct which breached numerous fundamental tenets of nursing • Various clinical concerns over an extended period of time • Concerns which persisted over 18 months despite extensive support being given • Patients placed at unwarranted risk of harm • Workload of colleagues was increased by your inability to provide support to them • Lack of insight
Source
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