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Clinical care failings in healthcare regulator erasure decisions
This page groups published erasure determinations where regulator-derived summaries include clinical care, treatment, competence, or performance language. Categories describe broad themes in the regulator's published findings. They are not new allegations by MedicWatch.
210
matching published erasure determinations
46.6%
of 451 erasure determinations in scope
11 June 2021
earliest matching decision
19 August 2026
latest matching decision
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Profession breakdown
- Nurses134
- Doctors22
- Dentists7
Regulator breakdown
- Nursing and Midwifery Council134
- HCPC43
- Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service22
- Dental Professionals Hearings Service7
- GPHC4
Matching source-backed determinations
19 August 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC found that registered nurse Belinda Jayne Ellams made comments about Muslims to a colleague, brought weighted steel balls and sharpened scissors into a care home, and posted an offensive image on Facebook. The panel found her conduct was motivated by hostility towards Muslims and had the effect of violating her colleague’s dignity. It found her fitness to practise impaired, noted no evidence of insight, and imposed a striking-off order with an 18-month interim suspension order.
17 August 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC found that Steven David Wenman, a registered nurse, sent suggestive messages to one colleague, made comments of a sexual nature to two others, and ignored a third colleague in conduct the panel found amounted to bullying. The panel found his fitness to practise impaired by misconduct, noting very limited insight and minimal remediation, and imposed a striking-off order together with an 18-month interim suspension order.
14 August 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC found that registered nurse Julia Ann Nixon's fitness to practise remains impaired in two cases. Reviewing two 12-month suspension orders, the panel found she had not undertaken remediation, training or supervised practice and had not shown sufficient insight into failings in patient care and record-keeping. It replaced both suspension orders with striking-off orders, taking effect on 19 September and 27 November 2026.
14 August 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNursing associate
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found nursing associate Anthony Nethercott's fitness to practise impaired by his criminal convictions. Bristol Crown Court convicted him on 23 October 2025 of attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child, attempting to cause a child aged 13 to 15 to watch an image of sexual activity, and attempting to cause a female aged 13 or over to engage in penetrative sexual activity. The panel struck him off the register and imposed an 18-month interim suspension order.
11 August 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC agreed that Brenna Allsuch could be removed from the nursing register by agreement. The NMC was investigating allegations about medication errors, record keeping and clinical advice, none of which has been found proved by a statutory committee. An assistant registrar decided she no longer intends to work as a nurse, that the allegations were unlikely to result in a striking-off order, and that removal was in the public interest.
7 August 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Victoria Louise Huzzard made medication administration and record-keeping errors at two care homes in March and April 2022, and that she dishonestly signed a colleague's name in the controlled drugs and destruction books to suggest the colleague had witnessed her. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired by misconduct and struck her off the register. An interim suspension order of 18 months covers the appeal period.
6 August 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee reviewed a 12-month suspension order on nurse Nimmy George and decided to replace it with a striking-off order, taking effect at the end of 25 September 2026. The panel found her fitness to practise remains impaired by lack of competence and misconduct. It received no new evidence of insight or steps to strengthen her practice, and noted she has not engaged with the NMC since at least August 2024.
5 August 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC found that Karen Louise Grimley, a registered mental health nurse, accessed the clinical records of 22 patients at two NHS trusts between February and May 2020 without clinical justification, including records belonging to her father, a three-year-old child and colleagues. The panel found her explanations implausible, said her conduct showed deep-seated attitudinal issues, and found her fitness to practise impaired by reason of misconduct. It made a striking-off order. An interim suspension order of 18 months was also imposed.
5 August 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Ludo Msinamwa's fitness to practise remains impaired and replaced her conditions of practice order with a striking-off order. The panel was reviewing an order first imposed in August 2023 after she breached undertakings about falls management and record keeping. It noted she had not attended the last two review hearings and had provided no evidence of insight, remediation or compliance with the conditions. The order takes effect at the end of 7 September 2026.
30 July 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that health visitor Gillian Graham submitted inaccurate mileage claims dishonestly between January 2017 and March 2018, and told a colleague a nursery visit had gone well when she had not attended. The panel also found she repeatedly failed to file safeguarding documents and record wellbeing assessments for families with vulnerable children on her caseload. It found her fitness to practise impaired, struck her off the register and imposed an 18-month interim suspension order.
30 July 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC found that Lorna Margaret Carey, a mental health nurse, used her employer's staff reward funds for her own personal use between January 2022 and April 2023, and that she acted dishonestly. The panel also found she failed to cooperate with the NMC's enquiries about her health, and that her fitness to practise was impaired by misconduct and ill health. It made a striking-off order and an 18-month interim suspension.
30 July 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that nurse Kenneth Macadaeg touched Patient A's penis without clinical justification on more than one occasion during a night shift in February 2024, and told him he had 'a very strong erection'. The panel found both actions were sexually motivated. It found three further charges not proved, including allegations involving a second patient. The panel decided his fitness to practise was impaired, struck him off the register and imposed an 18-month interim suspension order.
28 July 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee reviewed a 12-month suspension order imposed on registered nurse Valerie Jean Howard, whose fitness to practise was found impaired by reason of lack of competence following medication errors between 2016 and 2019. The panel found she had not engaged with the NMC and had provided no evidence of insight or strengthened practice. It decided to make a striking-off order, taking effect at the end of 21 September 2026.
27 July 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee reviewed a 12-month suspension order imposed on registered nurse Hannah Kargbo in a case concerning lack of competence and health. The panel found that her fitness to practise remains impaired and decided to make a striking-off order, which takes effect at the end of 15 September 2026 under Article 30(1) of the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001. The meeting was held in private under Rule 19, so the substantive reasons are not in the public record.
24 July 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC agreed to remove Dionne Susan Homewood from the register at her own request. A referral in November 2025 alleged she lacked competence in medication administration, record keeping and leadership, and she accepted the concerns raised about her clinical practice. No allegation was found proved by an NMC committee. An Assistant Registrar decided she no longer intends to work as a registered nurse and that the public interest was best served by agreeing her removal.
23 July 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC decided that registered nurse Jinku Mary Joseph could leave the register by agreement. A referral in March 2025 raised concerns about her competence in patient care, medication administration, assessing patients, escalating deteriorating patients, record keeping and communication. She denied them, and no allegation was found proved. After she declined undertakings and said she no longer intended to nurse in the UK, an Assistant Registrar agreed her application for removal on 23 July 2026.
22 July 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Mark James Rebustes's fitness to practise was impaired by reason of his convictions. In May 2025 at Dundee Sheriff Court he was convicted of taking or making, and possessing, indecent photographs of children between 2019 and 2023. The panel found the convictions very serious, noted he had disengaged from the regulatory process and shown no insight or remorse, and imposed a striking-off order, with an interim suspension order for 18 months.
22 July 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Dean William Thomson's fitness to practise was impaired by reason of misconduct. He admitted charges of verbal abuse towards two patients, bullying and obstructive behaviour towards colleagues, poor record keeping, and dishonestly claiming he was unaware a patient had to be seen by two staff members. The panel accepted a consensual panel determination, found no mitigating features, and imposed a striking-off order with an interim suspension order for 18 months.
21 July 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Gemma Louise Palfreman, a registered adult nurse, prescribed medication to patients without a prescribing qualification and without consulting a GP, carried out two vaginal examinations on a 13-year-old patient outside her competence, and treated someone she knew personally. The panel also found she acted dishonestly on two occasions. It decided her fitness to practise was impaired and made a striking-off order, with an 18-month interim suspension order for the appeal period.
16 July 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that mental health nurse Adam Culverwell's fitness to practise was impaired after he was convicted at Bournemouth Crown Court of sexual activity offences against a vulnerable patient in his care, for which he was sentenced to seven years in prison. On 16 July 2026 the panel imposed a striking-off order, removing him from the register, with an 18-month interim suspension in case of appeal.
16 July 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilMidwife
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Tracy Anne Penny, a registered midwife, failed to meet the standards of knowledge, skill and judgement expected of a band 5 midwife across many areas, including cardiotocography interpretation, escalation, medication safety and record keeping, despite extensive support. The panel also found she did not carry out blood glucose monitoring on a newborn baby but recorded that she had, which it found dishonest. It decided her fitness to practise was impaired and imposed a striking-off order with an 18-month interim suspension.
16 July 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC found that Dawn Alison Ellerby, a mental health nurse, showed a lack of competence in fundamental nursing tasks and committed misconduct, including repeated dishonesty on three occasions, disregarding restrictions on handling medication, and intimidating colleagues, between 2018 and 2022. The Fitness to Practise Committee found her fitness to practise impaired and, noting a previous dishonesty finding and limited insight, imposed a striking-off order removing her from the register.
16 July 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that nurse Helen Bagley dishonestly completed a clinical reference for another nurse, stating she had been their Matron when she knew she had not. Under a consensual panel determination accepted on 16 July 2026, the panel found her fitness to practise impaired and imposed a striking-off order, with an 18-month interim suspension in case of appeal.
15 July 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC agreed an application from Hannah Margaret Horsburgh, an adult nurse from Cumbria, to be removed from its register. It was alleged that in 2023 she did not adequately monitor a patient's blood sugar levels, recorded false information to conceal a lack of monitoring, and failed to administer IV fluids properly. She accepted the concerns and that her fitness to practise was impaired. No allegation was found proved by a statutory committee.
15 July 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC agreed an application from Wilson Kaungwa, a mental health nurse from Dorset, to be removed from its register. Concerns raised in 2024 included poor record-keeping, sleeping on duty, and dishonestly working three shifts for one organisation while on paid sick leave from another, which he accepted and said he deeply regretted. No allegation was found proved by a statutory committee. The Assistant Registrar decided the public interest was best served by agreeing the removal.
13 July 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee decided to replace Mohamad Kanu's suspension order with a striking-off order at a review hearing on 13 July 2026. His fitness to practise remained impaired: he had not engaged with the NMC or provided evidence of remediation since a 2025 hearing over a medication error, a lack of candour and a breach of professional boundaries. The striking-off order takes effect at the end of 19 August 2026.
13 July 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Prince Chigozie Aneke's fitness to practise was impaired by misconduct and made a striking-off order. The panel found proved a series of failings at two care homes in 2023, including an insulin error, failures to monitor and escalate care of vulnerable residents, repeated medication dispensing errors and failures to work cooperatively with colleagues. It concluded he had shown extremely limited insight. An 18-month interim suspension order was also imposed.
8 July 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Margaret Jane Cooper, a registered nurse and deputy manager at Lound Hall Care Home, failed to ensure adequate care planning, record keeping, nutrition referrals and pressure area care for vulnerable residents in 2017. The panel also found she was dishonest in representations she made to the Care Quality Commission. It found her fitness to practise impaired and imposed a striking-off order, with an 18-month interim suspension order covering the appeal period.
8 July 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC found that Gabrielle Jean Prettyman, a registered nurse and registered manager of Lound Hall Care Home in Norfolk, failed to ensure adequate care planning, wound management, nutrition monitoring and record keeping for multiple residents in 2016 and 2017, and failed to act on concerns raised by the Care Quality Commission. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired by reason of misconduct and imposed a striking-off order, with an 18-month interim suspension order.
8 July 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Christie Okwaraji's fitness to practise remains impaired and directed that her name be struck off the register. At the fifth review of a conditions of practice order imposed in 2021 for lack of competence, the panel said she had not produced objective evidence of strengthened practice or remediation and that further conditions or a suspension would serve no useful purpose. The striking-off order takes effect on 17 August 2026.
7 July 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Sandra Young's fitness to practise remains impaired and replaced her suspension order with a striking-off order. The original findings included failing to take observations after a patient collapsed, dishonestly recording observations and an escalation she had not made, and watching TV on her phone on shift. The panel said she had provided no evidence of reflection or remediation and that a risk of repetition remained. The order takes effect on 12 August 2026.
7 July 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that David Mott's fitness to practise remains impaired and decided to impose a striking-off order. Reviewing a suspension order that followed findings he did not administer prescribed medication to numerous residents during a night shift, the panel said he had shown no insight or remorse, had told the NMC he did not intend to return to nursing, and remained liable to repeat the matters found proved. The order takes effect on 19 August 2026.
6 July 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Nsa Ita's fitness to practise remains impaired and replaced her suspension order with a striking-off order. Reviewing charges of lack of competence and misconduct in neonatal care, the panel said she had shown very limited insight, little evidence of strengthened practice, and remained liable to repeat the matters found proved. It concluded a further suspension would serve no useful purpose. The order takes effect on 13 August 2026.
6 July 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Francis Dike's fitness to practise remains impaired and directed that his name be struck off the register. At a substantive order review meeting, the panel said it had no evidence that Mr Dike had complied with his conditions of practice order, shown insight, or maintained his skills, and noted he had not engaged with the NMC since October 2024. The striking-off order takes effect on 22 August 2026.
3 July 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Valeria Hering, a registered nurse, received a police caution on 1 October 2024 for the theft of five types of medication from the Guernsey hospital where she worked. The panel did not find the two misconduct charges proved. It found her fitness to practise impaired by reason of the caution, noting a lack of insight and a high risk of repetition, and made a striking-off order together with an 18-month interim suspension order.
3 July 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Enkele Bonyeme, a registered nurse, remained impaired by reason of lack of competence when it reviewed a 30-month conditions of practice order imposed in January 2024. The panel had received no evidence that she had engaged, complied with the conditions or strengthened her practice, and concluded she was liable to repeat the failings. It replaced the order with a striking-off order, effective at the end of 5 August 2026.
3 July 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Elaine Maria Sullivan, a registered mental health nurse, dishonestly described herself as a clinical lead in a court report, worked outside her competence by diagnosing a patient, behaved inappropriately towards five junior colleagues, and disclosed private information about colleagues. The panel found her conduct was tantamount to bullying, that her fitness to practise was impaired, and made a striking-off order together with an 18-month interim suspension order.
1 July 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC decided to grant Caroline Anne Sempers' application for agreed removal from its register on 1 July 2026. Concerns had been raised about her medication management, record keeping and adherence to clinical protocols, which she accepted, though no allegation was found proved by a statutory committee. An Assistant Registrar was satisfied she no longer intends to work as a registered nurse and that removal served the public interest.
1 July 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Clara Osariemen Osazuwa, a registered nurse, did not engage with training and supervised medication rounds, refused to follow instructions and to undertake patient care, administered an excessive dose of Enoxaparin, took unauthorised absences, failed to prepare patient notes and did not answer patient call bells. The panel also found she acted dishonestly about an unauthorised absence. It found her fitness to practise impaired and made a striking-off order, together with an 18-month interim suspension order.
26 June 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that nurse Mandy June Jilley failed to record a patient restraint incident in sufficient detail, did not record a NEWS2 score or call an ambulance for a deteriorating patient, gave antipsychotic medication at the wrong times, and made dishonest statements to avoid blame. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired and imposed a striking-off order on 26 June 2026, with an 18-month interim suspension pending any appeal.
24 June 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Rose Linda Chinwenma Nkemdirim
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee decided at a review hearing on 24 June 2026 to replace nurse Rose Linda Chinwenma Nkemdirim's suspension order with a striking-off order, taking effect on 8 August 2026. The original charges, found proved in April 2025, concerned failures in controlled-drug records and medication administration records involving residents in her care. The panel found she had not engaged with the NMC since the substantive hearing and provided no evidence of insight, training or strengthened practice.
24 June 2026Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
The GDC tribunal decided that dentist Kacper Jakub Latos should be erased from the dental register. On 24 June 2026, the Professional Conduct Committee found his fitness to practise impaired by misconduct, ruling that he provided a poor standard of care to a patient over three years, failed to obtain informed consent, permitted an unregistered former dentist to treat her, and did not cooperate with the GDC. The committee ordered erasure and imposed an immediate suspension covering the appeal period.
24 June 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Eliot Aluge, a mental health nurse in London, pursued a sexual relationship with a vulnerable inpatient detained under the Mental Health Act, exposed himself to her on the ward, asked her for money and repeatedly contacted her without clinical justification. The panel found his fitness to practise impaired and struck him off the register, with an 18-month interim suspension order.
22 June 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that adult nurse Richard Bartley acted dishonestly by repeatedly failing to disclose that he was under disciplinary investigation by a former employer when applying for and working in a functional assessor role, and by giving inaccurate referee details. The panel found his fitness to practise impaired and made a striking-off order on 22 June 2026, with an 18-month interim suspension pending any appeal.
19 June 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee reviewed a six-month suspension order against adult nurse Joanne Marie Millard and replaced it with a striking-off order, effective from the end of 26 July 2026. The original panel found she did not take timely action when a resident in her care became less responsive and did not keep adequate records. The review panel found her fitness to practise remains impaired, with no new evidence of insight or retraining.
18 June 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee decided at a review hearing on 18 June 2026 that mental health nurse Joy Harradine remains impaired and directed that she be struck off the register when her current suspension expires on 15 July 2026. The original panel found she failed to check a patient for injury after an unwitnessed fall, kept poor records, and did not intervene when staff handled and spoke to the patient inappropriately. The review panel found no evidence of insight or strengthened practice.
18 June 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that children's nurse Jay Hobbs's fitness to practise was impaired by reason of misconduct, including six charges of dishonesty, in the care of four children in an emergency department between 2022 and 2023. The panel found he had put vulnerable patients at unwarranted risk of harm and dishonestly recorded and reported clinical observations. Finding a high risk of repetition, it made a striking-off order.
17 June 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee decided at a review meeting on 17 June 2026 to strike Adria Pearce, an adult nurse from Leicester, off the register. Her 12-month suspension followed proven charges of dishonestly taking dihydrocodeine and codeine phosphate from a ward medication cupboard at Glenfield Hospital. The panel found she remained impaired, having not engaged with the NMC since 2022, and the striking-off order takes effect on 31 July 2026.
15 June 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Penny Senner, a registered nurse in Dorset, accessed numerous patients' records without a legitimate clinical reason over more than a year, told a cancer patient that her Covid-19 vaccinations had caused her cancer, and gave patients an unapproved leaflet linking to an anti-vaccination website. The panel decided these actions were attempts to undermine public confidence in public health advice, amounted to misconduct, and made her fitness to practise impaired. It imposed a striking-off order, citing limited insight and a high risk of repetition.
9 June 2026Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Matthew Jones, a GP, carried out sexually motivated examinations of two patients in 2015 that were not clinically indicated, touching their genital areas, and that one patient was vulnerable due to her mental health. It also found he took sexual photographs of himself on a hospital landing in 2019. The tribunal decided his fitness to practise was impaired by misconduct and ordered that his name be erased from the medical register.
8 June 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Mrs Roberts, a registered nurse, committed serious misconduct, including reducing patients' IV fluids and bladder irrigation without clinical justification, intimidating patients, and belittling and racially discriminating against colleagues. It found her fitness to practise impaired, citing deep-seated attitudinal concerns and no insight or remediation, and directed that she be struck off the register.
8 June 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Stefania Pezzi, a registered nurse in Kent, remained impaired when it reviewed a 12-month suspension order imposed in 2025 for dishonesty in a job application, in which she omitted a previous nursing role and concealed that she had been dismissed and referred to the NMC. The panel found no change since the original hearing — no further insight, remediation or engagement — and noted her registration had lapsed before replacing the suspension with a striking-off order.
8 June 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Karen Nutbeam, a registered nurse in Surrey, remained impaired when it reviewed a 12-month conditions of practice order imposed in 2025 for shouting at a vulnerable care-home resident. The panel noted she had shown no insight or remediation, had let her registration lapse and did not intend to return to practice, and that conditions were no longer workable. It replaced the order with a striking-off order, taking effect on 24 July 2026.
5 June 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that registered nurse Juliette Johnson's fitness to practise was impaired by reason of misconduct. The panel found she had breached professional boundaries and acted with a lack of integrity by accepting monetary gifts totalling £39,300, in twelve cheques, from an elderly patient and his wife over about two and a half years. It made a striking-off order.
5 June 2026Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
The GDC tribunal decided that dentist Colin Duncan McLauchlan should be erased from the register with immediate suspension. The Professional Conduct Committee, sitting in his absence, found widespread failings in examinations, radiograph reporting, diagnosis and consent across 39 patients between 2018 and 2023, and found he acted dishonestly towards four patients, including denying he had left a dental bur in a patient's mouth and misattributing his own root canal work to another dentist.
5 June 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that registered nurse Cheryl Lee Feltner's fitness to practise was impaired by reason of misconduct. The panel found she had entered an inappropriate personal relationship with a vulnerable 16-year-old she had cared for, contacted them without clinical justification, encouraged them to abscond from their care home, and given them money. Finding a real risk of repetition, it made a striking-off order.
5 June 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that registered nurse William Sinclair Malcolm was convicted at Newcastle Crown Court in March 2025 of sexual assault, ill-treatment or wilful neglect of individuals in his care, and racially aggravated harassment, and was sentenced to 39 months' imprisonment. The panel found his fitness to practise impaired by reason of his convictions, identified serious attitudinal concerns and no insight, and imposed a striking-off order.
4 June 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC agreed to remove registered nurse Christopher Ronald Currie from its register under Rule 14, following his own application. The referral had alleged he lacked the competence to practise without supervision as a Band 5 nurse and raised a health concern; no allegation was found proved. An Assistant Registrar was satisfied the allegations were not fundamentally incompatible with registration and that removal served the public interest.
1 June 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Mrs Erive's fitness to practise remained impaired at a review of her conditions of practice order. She had not engaged with the NMC or shown any compliance, remediation or insight since misconduct found proved in relation to a resident's care and medication practice in 2022. The panel directed that her name be struck off the register, effective 8 July 2026.
29 May 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC agreed to remove nurse Sylvia Elizabeth Hughes from its register at her own request on 29 May 2026. Allegations about her management of a care home and attending work smelling of alcohol had not been proved by any committee. An Assistant Registrar decided the public interest was best served by agreeing the removal, as Ms Hughes no longer intends to work as a registered nurse.
29 May 2026Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Simon Moran's fitness to practise remained impaired by reason of misconduct. His case concerned dishonesty: before retiring he had used a colleague's prescription pads to prescribe medication to himself and a close relative. At this second review the tribunal noted he had not engaged with the regulator or shown any insight or remediation across two previous hearings, and decided to erase his name from the medical register.
28 May 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Simon Mudepu, a mental health nurse from North Yorkshire, engaged in sexually motivated conduct and harassment towards two junior female colleagues between February and July 2024, including unwanted physical contact and comments. The panel found his fitness to practise impaired and made a striking-off order, with an 18-month interim suspension order to cover any appeal period.
27 May 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Sandra Mohamed's fitness to practise remained impaired by misconduct and lack of competence, relating to medication administration errors and failed drug competency assessments in 2019. At a review hearing on 27 May 2026, the panel replaced her suspension order with a striking-off order, noting she had disengaged from the NMC and had not shown insight or strengthened practice.
27 May 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that John Andrew Charters, a mental health and adult nurse from Inverness, was convicted in April 2024 of assaulting two care home residents, in 2014 and 2022. The panel found his fitness to practise impaired, decided a striking-off order was the only sufficient sanction, and directed that he be struck off the register, with an 18-month interim suspension covering the appeal period.
20 May 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Andre Miguel Maia Seica Neves, a senior staff nurse in Bristol, performed ECGs and a bladder scan on junior colleagues and invited them to practise procedures on him, contrary to standard training practice, and that his actions were sexually motivated, seeking sexual gratification. The panel found his fitness to practise impaired and struck him off the register, imposing an 18-month interim suspension to cover any appeal.
20 May 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC decided to remove Victor Clarence Japson, an adult nurse from the Devon area, from its register by agreement on 20 May 2026. He applied for agreed removal after a referral alleged his performance did not meet required standards in areas including medication administration and wound care. No allegation was found proved; the NMC was satisfied he no longer intends to work as a registered nurse and that removal served the public interest.
19 May 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that nurse Claire Ann Fitzpatrick, while a care home manager in Cumbria, dishonestly withdrew money from two vulnerable residents' accounts partly for her own benefit, stole money from a colleague's home, borrowed money from junior colleagues, and failed to keep proper care records or notify the Care Quality Commission of two residents' deaths. The panel ordered that she be struck off the register.
19 May 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that nurse Alison Jayne Marshall's fitness to practise was impaired after her conviction for stealing medication from the hospital where she worked. She was captured on CCTV removing medication on 12 occasions over eight days and pleaded guilty at Antrim Magistrates' Court. Finding no evidence of insight or remediation, the panel imposed a striking-off order, with an 18-month interim suspension pending any appeal.
19 May 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that nurse Laura Coulbeck acted dishonestly by falsely telling her employer she had suffered a close family bereavement, for which she received paid compassionate leave, and by reporting pregnancy-related illness when she was not pregnant, for which she received paid sick leave. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired on public interest grounds and imposed a striking-off order, with an 18-month interim suspension pending any appeal.
18 May 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNursing associate
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that nursing associate Gemma Louise Banks' fitness to practise was impaired after she was convicted of two offences of being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs, heroin and crack cocaine. The panel decided the convictions were fundamentally incompatible with her remaining on the register and imposed a striking-off order, with an 18-month interim suspension order to cover any appeal period.
14 May 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Janet Valerie Burroughs, a nurse at an Essex NHS trust, dishonestly requested and took Lorazepam tablets belonging to the trust without clinical justification, intending to give them to a relative. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired and made a striking-off order, concluding the dishonesty and abuse of trust were incompatible with continued registration.
13 May 2026Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDental nurse
The GDC tribunal decided that dental nurse and orthodontic therapist Harpreet Kaur Kundola should be erased from the register. The Professional Conduct Committee found her fitness to practise impaired by her 2024 conviction at Leeds Crown Court for conspiring to pervert the course of public justice, for which she received a suspended prison sentence. The panel said her behaviour was fundamentally incompatible with continued registration and suspended her registration immediately pending the appeal period.
7 May 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilMidwife
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Katie Louise Windle, a midwife working in triage at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, was rude to patients, failed to examine a patient in labour adequately, incorrectly advised patients not to attend hospital, and did not respect patients' dignity or birth wishes. The panel decided her fitness to practise was impaired and made a striking-off order, removing her from the register.
6 May 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC agreed to remove nurse Cheryl Dowdall from its register at her own request on 6 May 2026, while an allegation that she failed to follow the correct procedure for safe disposal of medicines was before the Fitness to Practise Committee. No allegation was found proved, and she denies the concerns. An Assistant Registrar was satisfied she no longer intends to work as a registered nurse and that the case was not likely to result in a striking-off order.
5 May 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC agreed to remove nurse Nicoleta Pavel from the register at her own request on 5 May 2026, while allegations about her management of a care home were unresolved. It was alleged she did not ensure safe care for residents and failed to protect them from abuse and neglect. No allegation was found proved. The NMC's Assistant Registrar decided the public interest was best served by agreeing her removal, noting she no longer intends to work as a registered nurse.
1 May 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that mental health nurse Eruore Augustina Obibi's fitness to practise remained impaired when it reviewed her suspension order on 1 May 2026. The original charges, found proved, included failing to preserve patient safety, failing to carry out one-to-one observation of a patient, and behaving inappropriately towards a patient in breach of professional boundaries. Citing her disengagement and lack of insight, the panel replaced the suspension with a striking-off order effective 12 June 2026.
1 May 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that nurse Nyarari Hwayire's fitness to practise remained impaired when it reviewed her conditions of practice order on 1 May 2026. The original case involved medication errors, unprofessional behaviour towards a colleague, and storing photographs of medication charts on her personal phone. The panel found limited insight and no evidence of strengthened practice, and decided a striking-off order was the only sanction that would protect the public. The order takes effect on 10 June 2026.
1 May 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that children's nurse Natalie Jane Smith's fitness to practise remained impaired when it reviewed her suspension order on 1 May 2026. The original case concerned a lack of competence, including medication errors, record-keeping failures, and practising beyond her training. Noting she had not engaged with the NMC since January 2023, the panel decided a striking-off order was the only sanction that would protect the public. It takes effect on 28 June 2026.
30 April 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC agreed to remove Ina Eulene Crawford-Carty, an adult nurse from the West Midlands, from its register at her own request on 30 April 2026. It had been alleged that she made errors in patient assessment and monitoring, medication administration and record keeping, which she accepted. No allegation was proved by a statutory committee. The NMC's Assistant Registrar decided the allegations were not likely to result in a striking-off order and that removal served the public interest.
30 April 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that adult nurse Xoisa Hlatshwayo failed to follow controlled drugs procedures at a care home, forged a colleague's signature in the controlled drug book, sought to persuade the colleague to sign records for administration she had not witnessed, and slept while on duty over a prolonged period. Finding her fitness to practise impaired, the panel imposed a striking-off order and an 18-month interim suspension order.
29 April 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that nurse Florence Ayodele Fayomi dishonestly told a 999 operator that the care home where she worked had a defibrillator when it did not, left a resident during a life-threatening emergency, failed to reposition a vulnerable resident, and did not carry out checks after another resident's unwitnessed fall. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired and directed that she be struck off the register, imposing an 18-month interim suspension order.
28 April 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC agreed to remove nurse Corah B Mckenna from its register at her own request. Concerns had been raised about her competence in areas including medication administration and record-keeping, and about her behaviour towards colleagues, but no allegation was found proved by any committee. The NMC's Assistant Registrar decided the allegations were not likely to result in a striking-off order and that removal best served the public interest.
23 April 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Ian O'Connor's fitness to practise remained impaired at a review of his suspension order. The original 2020 charges, found proved in 2024, involved changing two patients' early-warning scores, failing to record or escalate their condition, and failing to make his own observations. Having received no evidence of insight or engagement, the panel replaced the suspension with a striking-off order taking effect on 2 June 2026.
23 April 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that adult nurse Vigneswari Ganason's fitness to practise was impaired by reason of her conviction for stealing a bank card belonging to a patient in her care and using it for several transactions. The panel imposed a striking-off order, finding her dishonesty fundamentally incompatible with remaining on the register, and an 18-month interim suspension order pending any appeal.
23 April 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC found that adult nurse Claire Bosanquet should be removed from the register by agreement. The Assistant Registrar accepted her application for agreed removal on 23 April 2026. Concerns had been raised about her competence in areas including medication management, record keeping, infection control and patient care, and about a health condition. The matter had been referred to the Fitness to Practise Committee but no allegation had been substantively proved. The decision will be published for twelve months.
22 April 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC agreed an application from children's nurse Selvi Ragen for removal from its register on 22 April 2026. A referral had alleged she failed to demonstrate the knowledge, skill and judgement to practise without supervision as a band five nurse, which she denies. She had agreed undertakings recommended by case examiners, and no allegation was found proved. The Assistant Registrar was satisfied she no longer intends to work as a registered nurse.
17 April 2026Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
The GDC tribunal decided that Mr Iwanicki's fitness to practise as a dentist is impaired by reason of misconduct and ordered that his name be erased from the Dental Register. The Professional Conduct Committee found proved charges relating to inadequate clinical care of two patients, poor record keeping, failure to retain and provide dental records, deletion of clinical photographs, and a sustained failure to co-operate with the GDC. The Committee identified a deep-seated professional attitudinal problem and concluded that no lesser sanction was sufficient.
17 April 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee decided that children's nurse Kelly-Marie Porter should be struck off the register. The panel found that on 9 April 2025 she was convicted at Plymouth Magistrates' Court of making indecent images of a child and possessing an extreme pornographic image. She was sentenced to 32 weeks suspended imprisonment and placed on the Sex Offenders Register. The committee found her fitness to practise impaired by reason of her conviction and imposed a striking-off order on 17 April 2026, with an 18-month interim suspension order to cover the appeal period.
17 April 2026HCPCParamedic
Matthew Goodey
The HCPTS panel decided that Matthew Goodey should be subject to the published outcome from a final hearing. The panel directed removal from the HCPC Register. The public page records the profession, registration number, allegation, finding, order, notes and hearing history for source verification.
16 April 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Shona Mary Ovenstone, a registered nurse who ran an aesthetics clinic in Fife, dishonestly administered Botox to a patient in March and April 2024 using a prescription intended for another patient, reused the same vial after 13 days against single-use instructions, failed to keep adequate records, and breached her duty of candour by not telling the patient what had happened. The panel imposed a striking-off order with an 18-month interim suspension order during the appeal period.
15 April 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Investigating Committee found that Esther Temitayo Ayelabowo's entry on the nursing register was fraudulently procured, because the Computer Based Test result she submitted from the Yunnik Technologies test centre in Nigeria on 29 March 2022 had been obtained through fraud, most likely through use of a human proxy. She completed the clinical test in under ten minutes against an allowed time of 150 minutes. The panel directed under Article 26(7) that her entry be removed from the register, with an 18-month interim suspension order covering the appeal period.
15 April 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Zdzislaw Reterski, a registered nurse, slept on duty at one care home and falsified records to show he had given morning medications and made entries when he was not on duty. At a second care home, he failed to give prescribed medications to several residents on specified dates. The panel found his conduct dishonest and amounted to misconduct, that his fitness to practise was impaired, and ordered him to be struck off the register, with an 18-month interim suspension order.
10 April 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC found that Kate Sullivan, a registered mental health nurse, had an undeclared sexual relationship with a colleague, had sexual intercourse with him in the workplace, breached professional boundaries with a vulnerable patient, refused to provide care to a patient, did not report serious incidents, manipulated staffing to spend time with the colleague, and was unprofessional toward other colleagues. The panel decided her fitness to practise is impaired and ordered her name to be struck off the register.
10 April 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Assistant Registrar decided to remove Helen Joyce Champion, a registered nurse, from the NMC register by agreement. The application followed a referral raising concerns that she failed to respond appropriately to medical incidents, to document incidents accurately, or to maintain a resident's dignity. No allegation has been proved by a statutory committee, but the registrant does not intend to return to nursing and the Assistant Registrar found removal was in the public interest.
9 April 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee reviewed an existing conditions of practice order that had been in place since 2022 for sleeping on duty as a Deputy Manager. The panel found Mrs Parry's fitness to practise remained impaired and that she had shown limited insight, no remediation, and no evidence of strengthened practice over four years. The panel decided to replace the conditions of practice order with a striking-off order, which will take effect on 17 May 2026.
8 April 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Investigating Committee found that Uchechukwu Nrabalu, a registered nurse, had submitted a Computer Based Test result obtained through fraud as part of her application to join the NMC register. She took the test at the Yunnik test centre in Nigeria in May 2022, completing it unusually quickly. The panel directed the Registrar to remove her entry from the register because it had been fraudulently procured.
8 April 2026HCPCOccupational Therapist
Steven Taylor
The HCPTS panel decided that Steven Taylor should be subject to the published outcome from a voluntary removal agreement. The panel approved voluntary removal from the register. The public page records the profession, registration number, allegation, finding, order, notes and hearing history for source verification.
8 April 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Maria Charito Estrella Poblete
The NMC found that Maria Poblete, a registered nurse working as a Deputy Sister at a nursing home, did not properly review or assess a vulnerable resident's pressure wounds for several months in 2022, did not update care plans or complete required risk-score forms, and did not escalate the wounds to a senior nurse or specialist. The resident developed serious sacral wounds. She was placed on a 12-month conditions of practice order in April 2025. At today's review she had not engaged with the NMC, so the panel decided to strike her name off the register.
8 April 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC found that Ruffa Hernandez, a registered nurse, did not meet the standards of knowledge, skill and judgment expected of a Band 5 nurse. Between August 2022 and June 2023 she made multiple medication and care errors, including incorrect insulin doses, a missed pressure sore, poor handovers, and an inaccurate insulin administration record. She was suspended for 12 months in April 2025. At today's review she had not engaged with the NMC or shown any improvement, so the panel decided to strike her name off the register.
7 April 2026HCPCProsthetist Orthotist
Claire L Devitt
The HCPTS panel decided that Claire L Devitt should be subject to the published outcome from a voluntary removal agreement. The panel approved voluntary removal from the register. The public page records the profession, registration number, allegation, finding, order, notes and hearing history for source verification.