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.
95
published erasure determinations analysed
89
matched at least one specific reason category
22 January 2026
earliest decision date in this view
23 April 2026
latest decision date in this view
Interactive chart
Categorised reasons in published erasure decisions
Clinical care
54 of 95
56.8%
Records
37 of 95
38.9%
Workplace conduct
35 of 95
36.8%
Medicines and drugs
33 of 95
34.7%
Dishonesty
29 of 95
30.5%
Health and substance
28 of 95
29.5%
Patient safety
24 of 95
25.3%
Consent and dignity
17 of 95
17.9%
Sexual misconduct
16 of 95
16.8%
Criminal conviction
15 of 95
15.8%
Non-engagement
12 of 95
12.6%
Other
6 of 95
6.3%
Category table
| Category | Count | Share | What this includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical care and competence | 54 | 56.8% | Findings involving clinical care, treatment, diagnosis, competence, performance, or professional skill. |
| Records, paperwork, and administration | 37 | 38.9% | Findings involving record keeping, notes, paperwork, documentation, or administrative compliance. |
| Workplace conduct and colleagues | 35 | 36.8% | Findings involving colleagues, workplace behaviour, bullying, harassment, or employer-related conduct. |
| Medicines, prescribing, and drugs | 33 | 34.7% | Findings involving prescribing, medicines management, controlled drugs, medication errors, or drug misuse. |
| Dishonesty and false records | 29 | 30.5% | Findings involving dishonesty, fraud, forged documents, false statements, or misleading records. |
| Health, alcohol, or substance concerns | 28 | 29.5% | Findings involving health concerns, alcohol, substance misuse, or health-related impairment. |
| Patient safety and safeguarding | 24 | 25.3% | Findings involving patient safety, safeguarding, vulnerable people, child protection, or risk of harm. |
| Communication, consent, and dignity | 17 | 17.9% | Findings involving consent, communication, dignity, confidentiality, or patient information. |
| Sexual misconduct and boundaries | 16 | 16.8% | Regulator-described findings involving sexual misconduct, sexualised behaviour, or professional-boundary violations. |
| Criminal conviction or caution | 15 | 15.8% | Findings where the published determination refers to a criminal conviction, caution, court sentence, or criminal offence. |
| Non-engagement with the regulator | 12 | 12.6% | Findings involving failure to engage, non-compliance, breach of conditions, or failure to cooperate with the regulator. |
| Other or unclear | 6 | 6.3% | Determinations where the available summary text does not clearly match one of the other broad categories. |
Example source-backed determinations
Clinical care and competence
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.
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.
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.
Records, paperwork, and administration
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.
17 April 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee decided that mental health nurse Sarah-Jane Swift should be struck off the register. The panel found that on 13 April 2022 she touched a vulnerable colleague's bare chest without his consent during a workplace incident, and that this was sexual in nature and harassed him. The committee found her fitness to practise impaired and imposed a striking-off order on 17 April 2026. An interim suspension order of 18 months was also imposed to cover the appeal period.
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.
Workplace conduct and colleagues
21 April 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Babasola Olayinka Babinson, a registered mental health nurse, mismanaged the restraint of a vulnerable patient on a night shift in August 2023, allowed colleagues to hold the patient by the neck, slapped the patient, threw liquid at her, held her head while she lay prone, and dishonestly omitted these events from the incident report. The panel found his fitness to practise impaired and imposed a striking-off order, with an 18-month interim suspension order during the appeal period.
17 April 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee decided that mental health nurse Sarah-Jane Swift should be struck off the register. The panel found that on 13 April 2022 she touched a vulnerable colleague's bare chest without his consent during a workplace incident, and that this was sexual in nature and harassed him. The committee found her fitness to practise impaired and imposed a striking-off order on 17 April 2026. An interim suspension order of 18 months was also imposed to cover 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.
Medicines, prescribing, and drugs
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.
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.
16 April 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC found that nurse James Forbes Mcgurk Wilson should be removed from the register by agreement. The Assistant Registrar accepted his application for agreed removal on 16 April 2026. Concerns had been raised that he administered incorrect medication to a service user and was dishonest in recording the medication count. The investigation had not yet concluded and no allegation had been substantively proved. The decision will be published for twelve months.
Dishonesty and false records
21 April 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Babasola Olayinka Babinson, a registered mental health nurse, mismanaged the restraint of a vulnerable patient on a night shift in August 2023, allowed colleagues to hold the patient by the neck, slapped the patient, threw liquid at her, held her head while she lay prone, and dishonestly omitted these events from the incident report. The panel found his fitness to practise impaired and imposed a striking-off order, with an 18-month interim suspension order during the appeal period.
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.
16 April 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC found that nurse James Forbes Mcgurk Wilson should be removed from the register by agreement. The Assistant Registrar accepted his application for agreed removal on 16 April 2026. Concerns had been raised that he administered incorrect medication to a service user and was dishonest in recording the medication count. The investigation had not yet concluded and no allegation had been substantively proved. The decision will be published for twelve months.
Health, alcohol, or substance concerns
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.
21 April 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Babasola Olayinka Babinson, a registered mental health nurse, mismanaged the restraint of a vulnerable patient on a night shift in August 2023, allowed colleagues to hold the patient by the neck, slapped the patient, threw liquid at her, held her head while she lay prone, and dishonestly omitted these events from the incident report. The panel found his fitness to practise impaired and imposed a striking-off order, with an 18-month interim suspension order during the appeal period.
20 April 2026Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found Rachel Jane Pearson's fitness to practise impaired by reason of misconduct, conviction and health, after a hearing held in private under Rule 19. The panel decided to impose a striking-off order, removing her from the nursing register. An interim suspension order of 18 months was also imposed. The substantive findings are not published because the hearing was private.
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 95 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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