Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — substantive hearing
Suspended from practice — 1 year
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Concerning Charan Kanwal Sidhu, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 84I2526E).
Decision date: 25 March 2026 · Hearing started 16 March 2026 and ended 25 March 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee imposed a 12-month suspension order with review on Charan Kanwal Sidhu, a registered adult nurse from Shropshire, on 25 March 2026. The panel found that, as registered manager and later owner of Oldbury Grange Nursing Home between 2015 and 2021, she had failed to adequately implement systems and procedures in areas including infection control, risk assessment, nutrition, equipment maintenance, fire safety, and waste disposal, and that these failings exposed residents to a risk of serious harm. An interim suspension order of 18 months was imposed pending appeal.
Charges
That, as registered home manager and/or owner/provider of Oldbury Grange Nursing Home between 2015 and 2021, Mrs Sidhu failed to adequately implement and/or monitor systems and procedures in safe staff recruitment and training, infection control, tissue viability care, risk assessment and management, resident nutrition and dietary needs, equipment service and maintenance, and care plans, and failed to adequately manage health and safety by allowing or contributing to unsafe disposal of waste and inadequate fire safety. Her actions exposed home residents to risk of serious harm. All charges proved by admission.
Findings
The panel found Mrs Sidhu's fitness to practise impaired by reason of her misconduct. The panel concluded the failings were persistent, widespread, and exposed vulnerable residents to a risk of harm, with some residents suffering actual harm. The panel did not consider the failings to be attitudinal, noting her willingness to engage with regulators and make attempts to improve service provision, but concluded the concerns went beyond clinical retraining and that no workable conditions could adequately protect the public. The panel was satisfied a 12-month suspension would mark the seriousness of the misconduct, allow for further reflection and remediation, and protect the public.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
Admission of the facts (albeit at a late stage of the proceedings). Evidence of being a caring nurse. Efforts to put problems right, although noting these were unsuccessful. Evidence of keeping up to date with her area of practice through multiple training certificates. Remorse.
Aggravating factors
Conduct which recklessly put people receiving care at risk of suffering harm, with some residents suffering actual harm. A pattern of misconduct over a prolonged period of time. Limited insight. Vulnerability of the persons receiving care.
Source
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