Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — substantive hearing
NMC panel strikes off nurse Ibukunola Fisher over falsified sick notes
A Nursing and Midwifery Council panel has struck adult nurse Ibukunola Oyekunle Omoniyi Fisher off the register after finding she dishonestly produced three falsified sick notes and worked agency shifts while claiming sick pay from Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 28 May 2026 · Updated 11 July 2026
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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 Ibukunola Oyekunle Omoniyi Fisher, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 19F1377E).
Decision date: 28 May 2026 · Hearing started 6 October 2025 and ended 28 May 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Ibukunola Oyekunle Omoniyi Fisher, an adult nurse from Northampton, dishonestly produced three falsified sick notes while employed by Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust and worked agency nursing shifts while receiving sick pay she knew she was not entitled to. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired and made a striking-off order, with an 18-month interim suspension covering any appeal period.
Charges
That while working for Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust, Miss Fisher produced a falsified sick note dated 19 January 2022, a falsified sick note dated 21 March 2022, and a falsified sick note purporting to cover the period 22 December 2021 to 19 January 2022; that these actions were dishonest in that she knew the sick notes provided were false; that on one or more scheduled dates she worked shifts as a nurse for the agency Interact Medical Ltd while in receipt of sick pay from the Trust; and that this was dishonest in that she represented to the Trust that she was entitled to receive sick pay when she knew she was not. All four charges were found proved.
Findings
The panel rejected Miss Fisher's account as wholly implausible and untrue, and found she was a knowing participant in the production and submission to the Trust of three false sick notes. It found she worked agency shifts on twelve dates while in receipt of sick pay from the Trust, and that she made the implicit representations in the false sick notes knowingly, intending to be paid sick pay she was not entitled to. The panel found each charge proved amounted to serious misconduct involving serious and sustained dishonesty evidencing a deep-seated attitudinal issue, with no evidence of insight, remorse or remediation, and found her fitness to practise impaired on public interest grounds. It made a striking-off order, with an 18-month interim suspension order to cover any appeal period.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
Difficult personal circumstances and health (details considered in private).
Aggravating factors
Abuse of a position of trust; lack of insight into failings; lack of remorse for dishonest misconduct; misconduct which was for financial gain; a pattern of misconduct over a period of time.
Source
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