NMC insights
Why UK nurses and midwives are struck off
This analysis groups published NMC erasure determinations into broad reason categories using the regulator-described charges, findings, and summaries indexed by MedicWatch. The figures describe MedicWatch's indexed corpus of published regulator determinations, not all healthcare misconduct.
139
published erasure determinations analysed
133
matched at least one specific reason category
22 January 2026
earliest decision date in this view
3 July 2026
latest decision date in this view
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Categorised reasons in published erasure decisions
Clinical care
77 of 139
55.4%
Records
53 of 139
38.1%
Medicines and drugs
49 of 139
35.3%
Health and substance
46 of 139
33.1%
Dishonesty
45 of 139
32.4%
Workplace conduct
45 of 139
32.4%
Patient safety
39 of 139
28.1%
Sexual misconduct
24 of 139
17.3%
Consent and dignity
24 of 139
17.3%
Criminal conviction
22 of 139
15.8%
Non-engagement
14 of 139
10.1%
Other
6 of 139
4.3%
Category table
| Category | Count | Share | What this includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical care and competence | 77 | 55.4% | Findings involving clinical care, treatment, diagnosis, competence, performance, or professional skill. |
| Records, paperwork, and administration | 53 | 38.1% | Findings involving record keeping, notes, paperwork, documentation, or administrative compliance. |
| Medicines, prescribing, and drugs | 49 | 35.3% | Findings involving prescribing, medicines management, controlled drugs, medication errors, or drug misuse. |
| Health, alcohol, or substance concerns | 46 | 33.1% | Findings involving health concerns, alcohol, substance misuse, or health-related impairment. |
| Dishonesty and false records | 45 | 32.4% | Findings involving dishonesty, fraud, forged documents, false statements, or misleading records. |
| Workplace conduct and colleagues | 45 | 32.4% | Findings involving colleagues, workplace behaviour, bullying, harassment, or employer-related conduct. |
| Patient safety and safeguarding | 39 | 28.1% | Findings involving patient safety, safeguarding, vulnerable people, child protection, or risk of harm. |
| Sexual misconduct and boundaries | 24 | 17.3% | Regulator-described findings involving sexual misconduct, sexualised behaviour, or professional-boundary violations. |
| Communication, consent, and dignity | 24 | 17.3% | Findings involving consent, communication, dignity, confidentiality, or patient information. |
| Criminal conviction or caution | 22 | 15.8% | Findings where the published determination refers to a criminal conviction, caution, court sentence, or criminal offence. |
| Non-engagement with the regulator | 14 | 10.1% | Findings involving failure to engage, non-compliance, breach of conditions, or failure to cooperate with the regulator. |
| Other or unclear | 6 | 4.3% | Determinations where the available summary text does not clearly match one of the other broad categories. |
Example source-backed determinations
Clinical care and competence
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.
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
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.
Records, paperwork, and administration
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.
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.
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.
Medicines, prescribing, and drugs
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.
29 June 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee decided to strike nurse Violetta Hajjar off the register at a review hearing on 29 June 2026. She had been suspended since July 2025 after the NMC found she failed to give a resident prescribed medication and signed the medication record as if she had. The panel found she had not engaged with the NMC or shown insight during two six-month suspensions, and the striking-off order takes effect on 4 August 2026.
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.
Health, alcohol, or substance concerns
30 June 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that mental health nurse Joseph Lewis misappropriated around £500 raised for charity, which he had stored in a locked safe at the Brighton and Hove Clinic, and acted dishonestly. The panel found his fitness to practise impaired on public interest grounds and made a striking-off order, with an 18-month interim suspension to cover any 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.
Dishonesty and false records
3 July 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Anna Preyzner, a registered nurse, remained impaired by reason of misconduct when it reviewed a six-month suspension order imposed in January 2026 for dishonestly recording false colleague temperature readings during Covid-19 safety checks. The panel found no evidence of further insight or strengthened practice and noted she did not intend to return to nursing. It replaced the order with a striking-off order, effective at the end of 17 August 2026.
30 June 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that mental health nurse Joseph Lewis misappropriated around £500 raised for charity, which he had stored in a locked safe at the Brighton and Hove Clinic, and acted dishonestly. The panel found his fitness to practise impaired on public interest grounds and made a striking-off order, with an 18-month interim suspension to cover any appeal period.
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.
Workplace conduct and colleagues
3 July 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Anna Preyzner, a registered nurse, remained impaired by reason of misconduct when it reviewed a six-month suspension order imposed in January 2026 for dishonestly recording false colleague temperature readings during Covid-19 safety checks. The panel found no evidence of further insight or strengthened practice and noted she did not intend to return to nursing. It replaced the order with a striking-off order, effective at the end of 17 August 2026.
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.
25 June 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Claire King, a registered nurse in West Lothian, repeatedly stole medication from St John's Hospital, took money from a patient and a colleague, and dishonestly falsified a patient's medication record. The panel decided her misconduct made her fitness to practise impaired and imposed a striking-off order, saying her repeated dishonesty showed deep-seated attitudinal concerns with no insight or remediation. One charge of failing to co-operate with medical testing was found not proved.
Methodology and limits
This page analyses published erasure and voluntary-erasure determinations in the MedicWatch indexed corpus. It does not claim to measure all misconduct in UK healthcare or every regulator decision ever made.
MedicWatch applies a fixed taxonomy to regulator-derived charges, findings, and plain-English summaries. A determination can match more than one category, so category percentages may add up to more than 100%. The denominator for each percentage on this page is 139 published determinations.
Categories describe broad themes in the regulator's published findings. They are not new allegations by MedicWatch. Follow the linked source determinations for the full wording and context.
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