Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — voluntary removal
Voluntary removal from the register
The regulator’s term: voluntary erasure accepted
What does “voluntary removal from the register” mean?
The practitioner asked to be removed from the register and the regulator accepted the request. This may happen during or after a fitness-to-practise case.
Concerning Ms Edith Adamezie Chukwunyerenwa, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 23A2488E).
Decision date: 7 April 2026
In plain English
An NMC Assistant Registrar accepted Ms Edith Adamezie Chukwunyerenwa's application for agreed voluntary removal from the nursing register on 7 April 2026, before any substantive hearing took place. The underlying concerns alleged that she had failed to demonstrate the required standards as a newly qualified Band 5 nurse and had asked a colleague not to report an error; she denied the concerns. Agreed removal allows the registrant to leave the register without admission of fault; if she ever seeks readmission, the NMC may revisit the matter.
Charges
The allegations were that Ms Chukwunyerenwa failed to demonstrate the standards of knowledge, skills and judgement required to practise as a Band 5 nurse without supervision, and that she asked a colleague not to report an error she had made while working under supervision. Ms Chukwunyerenwa did not accept the concerns, stating that she was newly qualified, that competence could not be acquired in one month of practice, and that she had been subject to intense bullying; she denied asking a colleague not to report an error.
Findings
No allegation was substantively proved by an NMC statutory committee. The matter had been referred to the Fitness to Practise Committee but Ms Chukwunyerenwa applied for agreed removal from the register on 20 March 2026 before any substantive hearing took place. An Assistant Registrar agreed to the removal under Rule 14, satisfied that Ms Chukwunyerenwa no longer intends to work as a registered nurse, that the allegations were not likely to result in a striking-off order, and that the public interest was best served by agreeing the application.
Source
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