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 Nyakallo Putsoane, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 04H0144O).
Decision date: 17 March 2026 · Hearing started 17 March 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee directed a striking-off order against Nyakallo Putsoane, a registered adult nurse from Port Talbot, on 17 March 2026 at a substantive order review hearing. The original 17-month conditions of practice order was imposed in October 2023 over events in March 2019 when she stopped a patient's oxygen without GP authority, did not escalate after a patient removed a syringe driver, and failed to record her observations. The panel concluded she had failed to engage with the NMC, demonstrated no insight or remediation, and that the striking-off order will take effect at the end of 31 March 2026 when the current order expires.
Charges
The original charges proved at the substantive hearing in October 2023 concerned events on 16 March 2019: that Ms Putsoane stopped Patient A's oxygen without seeking the authority of a GP; did not escalate or take appropriate action promptly after Patient A had pulled out a syringe driver; and failed to make adequate records of her observations of Patient A, including not recording that she had removed Patient A's oxygen and not recording that Patient A had removed the syringe driver.
Findings
The panel found Ms Putsoane's fitness to practise remains impaired. She had not engaged with the NMC, had not provided any evidence of insight, remediation, or strengthened practice, and had not been in nursing practice for over four years. The panel concluded she remained liable to repeat matters of the kind found proved and that a finding of continuing impairment was required on both public protection and public interest grounds. A further conditions of practice order would not be sufficient given her continued non-engagement.
Source
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