Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — substantive hearing
NMC panel suspends nurse Tolulope Akeredolu for six months over competence failings
The Nursing and Midwifery Council's Fitness to Practise Committee has suspended adult nurse Tolulope Akeredolu for six months after finding a lack of competence, including medication and record-keeping errors, at two London NHS trusts between 2017 and 2021.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 13 May 2026 · Updated 10 July 2026
Suspension (suspended from practice) — 6 months
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Concerning Tolulope Edith Imoleayo Akeredolu, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 12I1099E).
Decision date: 13 May 2026 · Hearing started 20 August 2025 and ended 13 May 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that adult nurse Tolulope Edith Imoleayo Akeredolu's fitness to practise was impaired by a lack of competence, after finding proved a series of medication, record-keeping and infection control failures at two London NHS trusts between 2017 and 2021. The panel imposed a six-month suspension order on 13 May 2026, with a review before it expires, and an 18-month interim suspension to cover any appeal.
Charges
Charges alleged a failure to demonstrate the standards of knowledge, skill and judgement required to practise without supervision as a Band 5 nurse at Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (December 2017 - December 2019) and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (December 2019 - May 2023). Facts found proved included: failing medication competency assessments; failing to complete a capability action plan; rinsing and reusing a tracheostomy suction catheter; incorrectly completing Glasgow Coma Scale scores; failing to change a VAC collection canister; failing to follow the blood transfusion administration and traceability process; administering intravenous paracetamol contrary to an oral prescription to a patient under the weight threshold; countersigning for an Oxycodone dose ten times the prescribed dose; administering intravenous Vancomycin at an incorrect rate; recording an incorrect Fentanyl concentration on a patient-controlled analgesia syringe; delaying insulin administration; administering Glucojuice to a hypoglycaemic patient with a nasogastric tube in situ (admitted); and two admitted TPN infection-control failures. Several charges were found not proved or dismissed for no case to answer.
Findings
The panel determined that the facts found proved amounted to a lack of competence, representing a fair sample of her work across two trusts between December 2017 and January 2021, spanning documentation and record keeping, medication administration and infection control. It found her fitness to practise currently impaired on both public protection and public interest grounds, citing insufficient insight and a risk of repetition. The panel decided a conditions of practice order could not be formulated at this time and imposed a six-month suspension order with a review, plus an 18-month interim suspension order to cover any appeal period.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
Personal issues played a part at the time; a willingness to learn, demonstrated by undertaking online training courses, although the panel considered this willingness limited as she had not reflected on how to embed the learning into her practice.
Aggravating factors
Prolonged and sustained issues in areas of basic nursing practice over multiple years, between two trusts - even though no harm was caused, significant errors were made; lack of insight into her failings and the impact on patient safety, for example refusing an offered move to a less stressful ward; contradictions between contemporaneous written reflections acknowledging failings and the evidence provided to the panel denying matters admitted earlier.
Source
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