Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — substantive hearing
Suspended from practice — 6 months
The regulator’s term: suspension
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A suspension is a fixed-term pause on the right to practise. The practitioner cannot work in the regulated profession during the suspension. At the end of the period the suspension may be extended, replaced with another sanction, or lifted on review.
Concerning Cali Maxamuud, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 13H2425E).
Decision date: 10 February 2026 · Hearing started 6 May 2025 and ended 10 February 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee imposed a suspension order on Cali Maxamuud, a registered mental health nurse from Bedfordshire, on 10 February 2026. The committee found proved that Maxamuud made derogatory comments via WhatsApp about a vulnerable patient at Cygnet Hospital in 2019, including comments that the patient 'should be allowed to die'. The suspension order lasts 6 months and includes a review. Mr Maxamuud is currently subject to a DBS Barring decision.
Charges
While working at Cygnet Hospital between 2018 and 2019: charges relating to inappropriate comments and conduct towards a patient (charges 1-3, no evidence offered); on 26 February 2019, via WhatsApp made derogatory comments to a colleague about Patient A including 'she need to be put down like unhealthy animal' and 'she should be allowed to die when she took Clozapine' (charges 4 and 5, admitted). Charges 4 and 5 were proved by admission.
Findings
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found charges of misconduct proved and determined that Cali Maxamuud's fitness to practise was impaired. The charges relating to sexual misconduct towards Patient A (charges 1-3) were not pursued as no evidence was offered. The panel imposed a suspension order for 6 months with review. The panel noted that Mr Maxamuud is currently subject to a DBS Barring decision. An interim suspension order for 18 months was imposed pending the appeal period.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
• Early admissions to charges 4 and 5 • An apology with a focus on the words used in the message
Aggravating factors
• Conduct which recklessly put a vulnerable patient receiving care at a potential risk of suffering harm • Very limited insight into actions • Very limited remediation
Source
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