Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — review hearing
Suspension (suspended from practice) — 6 months
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Concerning Grace Okanlawon, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 06H2890E).
Decision date: 13 April 2026 · Hearing started 13 April 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Grace Okanlawon, a registered nurse, remains impaired and replaced her existing 12-month conditions of practice order with a six-month suspension order taking effect on 22 May 2026. The panel found there was no evidence she had complied with her conditions of practice order or addressed the original concerns about clinical failings at a nursing home in 2022, including blood glucose monitoring, blood pressure checks, PEG feeding and record keeping.
Charges
The original substantive hearing (April 2025) found proved a series of clinical and record-keeping failings during the registrant's employment at a nursing home between August and October 2022, including: failing on multiple occasions to check and/or record patients' blood glucose; failing to document handover notes for patients on the electronic system; failing to carry out and escalate high blood pressure checks for Patient A; failing to record details and medication for Patient B on the electronic care plan; turning off Patient C's PEG feed pump, not changing the feeding tube and failing to escalate that the feed had occluded; stopping/disconnecting Patient C's feeding tube before the feed was finished; failing to follow up and record Patient E's refusal of wound checks; failing to attempt to use the manual blood pressure machine on Patient F and contacting 111 unnecessarily; failing to record administration of Patient G's Gabapentin and/or Diazepam on the MAR chart; wrongly identifying a Covid test as negative; and not carrying out the Covid testing procedure correctly.
Findings
The Fitness to Practise Committee, conducting a Substantive Order Review hearing in the registrant's absence, found that her fitness to practise remains impaired. The panel had no information before it that the registrant had been complying with the conditions of practice order, no evidence that the concerns identified by the original substantive hearing panel had been addressed, and no evidence of insight or remediation since the original hearing. The panel determined that a finding of impairment remains necessary on the grounds of public protection and on public interest grounds. The panel concluded that no workable conditions of practice could be formulated which would protect the public or satisfy the wider public interest, and replaced the existing 12-month conditions of practice order with a suspension order for six months to take effect on 22 May 2026.
Source
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