Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — substantive hearing
NMC panel suspends nurse Asha Bitita for 12 months over dishonesty about 999 call
The Nursing and Midwifery Council has suspended Oxfordshire nurse Asha Bitita for 12 months after a panel found she dishonestly told her employer she had called 999 when a care home resident was found unresponsive, when call records showed she had not.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 27 May 2026 · Updated 11 July 2026
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Concerning Asha Bitita, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 19G2113E).
Decision date: 27 May 2026 · Hearing started 15 December 2025 and ended 27 May 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Asha Bitita, an adult nurse working at a care home in Oxfordshire, dishonestly told her employer she had called 999 after finding a resident unresponsive in March 2022, when call records showed no 999 call was made. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired on public interest grounds and suspended her for 12 months, noting the dishonesty was an isolated incident.
Charges
That being a registered nurse she: (1) told her employer on or about 5 April 2022 that she had called 999 on 31 March 2022 when she had not; and (2) that her actions were dishonest in that she sought to create the impression that she had called 999 when she knew she had not. The charges arose while she was employed at Stowford House Care Home, where she found Resident A unresponsive; the call log showed a call to 111 and no evidence of a 999 call.
Findings
The panel found both charges proved on the balance of probabilities, concluding from the call log and witness evidence that no 999 call was made and that Miss Bitita knew this when she told her employer otherwise. It found her dishonesty breached her professional duty of candour and amounted to misconduct, and that her fitness to practise was impaired on public interest grounds only, citing insufficient insight into her dishonesty. The panel imposed a 12-month suspension order with a review, and decided the high threshold for an interim order was not met.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
Miss Bitita's previous good character; the misconduct was a one-off incident.
Aggravating factors
In the course of her dishonesty she also breached her professional duty of candour; a personal gain, in that she was dishonest as a way of avoiding the consequences of her actions, namely potential dismissal from her employment; she has demonstrated insufficient insight into the impact of her dishonesty on public confidence in, and the reputation of, the profession; she sought to blame others for her own misconduct.
Source
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