Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — review hearing
Struck off the register
The regulator’s term: erasure
What does “struck off the register” mean?
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 Mrs Mary Folake Olanrewaju, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 91H0145O).
Decision date: 2 April 2026 · Hearing started 2 April 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found at a substantive order review hearing on 2 April 2026 that Mrs Mary Folake Olanrewaju, a registered adult nurse, remained impaired and ordered her erasure from the register. She was originally suspended in April 2025 after the panel found multiple clinical errors as a locum nurse practitioner in 2019 and a subsequent failure to comply with the undertakings she had accepted with the NMC. The review panel found no engagement and replaced the suspension with a striking-off order taking effect on 7 May 2026.
Charges
Mrs Olanrewaju was charged with multiple clinical errors while working as a locum Nurse Practitioner at Toddington Medical Centre during 2019, including incorrectly advising a patient about an MMR vaccine, wrongly attempting to inject Denosumab into a patient's stomach, administering Zoladex into the anterior thigh instead of the abdomen, administering baby immunisations early, applying compression stockings when clinically inappropriate, applying dressings without protective gloves, and taking inadequate smear tests. She was further charged with failing to comply with six undertakings she had accepted with the NMC, covering medication-administration reports, evidence of completing a safe medication course, providing a Personal Development Plan, monthly progress reports, and a reflective profile.
Findings
All charges were proved at the original substantive hearing on 8 April 2025, which imposed a 6-month suspension. The order was reviewed on 3 September 2025 and extended. At this second review on 2 April 2026, the panel noted Mrs Olanrewaju's continued absence and lack of engagement with the NMC, and concluded that the only appropriate sanction was a striking-off order. Misconduct included clinical errors in 2019 and a subsequent failure to comply with the undertakings she had agreed with the regulator.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Aggravating factors
The conduct involved multiple clinical errors affecting several patients, including potential medication administration errors and inadequate smear tests. Mrs Olanrewaju subsequently failed to comply with the structured undertakings she had agreed with the NMC and did not engage with the proceedings.
Source
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