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UK nurses and midwives struck off the register
Being struck off removes the practitioner from the register. They are not permitted to practise that regulated profession in the UK while the erasure remains in force. This page is generated from source-backed determinations already published on MedicWatch.
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Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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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.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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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.
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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.
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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.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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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.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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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.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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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.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Darin Keith Burghes, a registered nurse, remains impaired and replaced his existing 12-month suspension order with a striking-off order taking effect at the end of 25 May 2026. The original 2020 incident involved shouting at Patient A, shouting 'bastard' towards her, and banging a glass bottle on the table in her room. The panel found no evidence of insight, remorse or remediation, and a sustained lack of engagement with the regulatory process.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Caroline Seabrook, a Band 7 mental health nurse, formed an inappropriate relationship with a 16-year-old child service user, gave him lifts and drugs, drove under the influence with him in the car, and continued contact after her employer told her to stop. She was twice convicted of drink and drug driving. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired and ordered her to be struck off the register, with an 18-month interim suspension order.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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Naomi Kathlynne Amanda Butcher
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Naomi Butcher, a hospice nurse, made multiple medication errors over a six-month period, including giving a terminally ill patient ten times the prescribed dose of midazolam and falsely recording the correct dose. She also made an unprofessional comment about a dying patient and made discriminatory remarks while refusing a deceased patient's family permission to visit. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired and ordered her to be struck off the register, with an 18-month interim suspension order.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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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.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee reviewed a 9-month suspension order imposed on Trey Vergara, a registered nurse, for shouting at and intimidating a colleague in 2021. The panel found his fitness to practise remained impaired and that he had shown limited engagement, no insight, no remorse and no remediation, telling the NMC he considered himself retired. The panel decided to replace the suspension with a striking-off order, which will take effect on 23 April 2026.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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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.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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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.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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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.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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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.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC found that Kim Ramsay, a registered nurse, did not carry out required observations or complete the proper records after a resident at her care home fell in July 2019, and did not complete admission records for another resident in January 2019. She had been subject to a conditions of practice order since 2022 but did not engage or show any retraining. At a review meeting, the panel decided to strike her name off the register.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Mrs Janette Donnelly, a registered nurse and home manager, restrained a vulnerable resident at Millport Care Centre on 19 February 2021 to enable a COVID-19 vaccination through the resident's leggings, and then dishonestly failed to report the inappropriate administration. The panel ordered her erasure from the register and imposed an 18-month interim suspension order pending conclusion of the case.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Ms Kassandra Spence, a registered adult nurse, had her fitness to practise impaired by reason of a criminal conviction. The panel ordered her erasure from the register and imposed an 18-month interim suspension order. The substantive hearing concluded on 2 April 2026 and was held entirely in private under Rule 19 of the NMC's Fitness to Practise Rules; the underlying details of the conviction are not publicly disclosed.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Mr Twinkle Antwi Baffour, a registered adult and mental health nurse, had repeatedly slept on duty during night shifts, failed to carry out required patient observations, and dishonestly falsified medical records on two occasions in 2020 and 2021 while working as nurse in charge at two care homes. The panel ordered his erasure from the register and imposed an 18-month interim suspension order, finding that his misconduct, including dishonesty affecting vulnerable residents, was incompatible with continued registration.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found at a substantive order review hearing on 2 April 2026 that Miss Heather Elisabeth Taylor, a registered adult nurse, remained impaired and ordered her erasure from the register. She was originally suspended for 12 months in January 2026 after being convicted of drink driving in 2023 and failing to disclose the charge to her employer. The review panel found no engagement and replaced the suspension with a striking-off order taking effect on 12 May 2026.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found at a substantive order review hearing on 2 April 2026 that Mrs Mary Folake Olanrewaju, a registered adult nurse, remained impaired and ordered her erasure from the register. She was originally suspended in April 2025 after the panel found multiple clinical errors as a locum nurse practitioner in 2019 and a subsequent failure to comply with the undertakings she had accepted with the NMC. The review panel found no engagement and replaced the suspension with a striking-off order taking effect on 7 May 2026.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee imposed a striking-off order on Carolyn Blore, a registered adult nurse from Nottingham who worked as a care home registered manager, on 2 April 2026. The committee found multiple charges of misconduct proved relating to failures in resident care, infection control, and care planning at Ashford Care Home in 2022. The panel found a complete absence of insight and no realistic prospect of remediation.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found at a substantive order review meeting on 1 April 2026 that Miss Amie Louise Allen, a registered adult nurse, remained impaired and ordered her erasure from the register. She was originally suspended for 12 months in March 2024 after admitting she had failed to administer four prescribed medications and had falsified records to claim she had. The review panel found no remediation, insight or engagement, and replaced the suspension with a striking-off order taking effect on 23 April 2026.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Mr Petros Mouskafidis, a registered adult nurse, was convicted on 8 May 2024 of intentionally exposing his genitals to a member of the public, contrary to Article 70 of the Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008. The panel ordered his erasure from the register, finding the conviction for a sexual offence incompatible with continuing to practise and noting he had shown no engagement with the NMC, no insight, and no remorse.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found at a substantive order review meeting on 1 April 2026 that Ms Gilvana Da Silva Nogueira, a registered adult nurse, remained impaired by reason of lack of competence and ordered her erasure from the register. She was originally suspended for 12 months in April 2024 after the panel found she had failed to meet competency objectives across four successive structured improvement processes. The review panel found no engagement and no realistic prospect of returning to safe practice, and replaced the suspension with a striking-off order taking effect on 1 May 2026.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee imposed a striking-off order on Dylan James Sinnott, a registered adult nurse from Leeds, at a review hearing on 31 March 2026. The panel found that concerns about his competence had persisted over approximately eight years despite multiple review hearings and conditions of practice orders. There was no evidence of remediation, Mr Sinnott had stated he did not intend to return to nursing, and further similar concerns had arisen during his employment as a clinical support worker.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee imposed a striking-off order on Susan Shuga, a registered adult nurse from London, on 26 March 2026. The panel found that, on 30 April 2015, she had provided Person 1 with a job offer letter from her own agency that contained falsified information, and that she had been dishonest in seeking to mislead any third party reading the letter into believing it was true. The panel concluded the misconduct involved an abuse of trust and that her absence of insight, remorse, and engagement made any lesser sanction insufficient. An interim suspension order of 18 months was imposed pending appeal.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that registered nurse Alexander Robert McMurray made bullying, humiliating and discriminatory comments to several colleagues at a hospital theatre department between November 2019 and April 2020, including age-related harassment of one colleague. The panel decided his fitness to practise is currently impaired and, noting his lack of insight and absence from the hearing, ordered that he be struck off the register. An 18-month interim suspension order was imposed to cover the appeal period.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee imposed a striking-off order on Sifiso Ncube, a registered adult nurse working in Scotland, on 24 March 2026. The panel found she had hidden her NHS Tayside employment when taking a second nursing job, made false statements about her own care company's regulatory status and staff vetting to a care home and to the Care Inspectorate, and acted dishonestly in respect of those matters. The panel concluded the repeated dishonesty, deep-seated attitudinal concerns, and absence of meaningful insight made any lesser sanction insufficient to protect the public. An interim suspension order of 18 months was imposed pending appeal.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee imposed a striking-off order on Jerry Barrozo, a registered adult nurse from St Martin, Guernsey, on 23 March 2026. The panel found that he had failed to cooperate with a criminal investigation into alleged theft of medication and medical supplies from his workplace, having failed to surrender to police custody on 4 September 2024 in accordance with his bail conditions and having left his home for an unknown whereabouts on or about 12 July 2024. The panel concluded the misconduct involved an abuse of trust and that no lesser sanction would protect the public. An interim suspension order of 18 months was imposed pending appeal.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee directed a striking-off order against Elzabeth Lennon, a registered children's nurse from Northampton, on 23 March 2026 at a substantive order review hearing. She had been suspended for six months over events on 16 March 2022 involving the care of a baby, including failing to check the cannula site, failing to investigate or escalate Alaris infusion pump alarms, inappropriately raising pump pressure, and dishonestly recording observations and reporting normal pressure readings to a doctor. The panel concluded she had not engaged with the regulatory process or shown remediation, and the striking-off order will take effect on 23 April 2026.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee imposed a striking-off order on Jean McLeod, a registered adult nurse from Fort William, on 23 March 2026. The panel found that on 7 September 2022 she stole and dishonestly used a colleague's bank card and then failed to disclose what she had done. The panel concluded the misconduct reflected deep-seated attitudinal concerns and a pattern of dishonesty, that she had limited insight, and that no lesser sanction would protect the public or maintain confidence in the profession. An interim suspension order of 18 months was imposed pending appeal.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee directed a striking-off order against Lea Mary Stewart, a registered adult nurse from West Lothian, on 20 March 2026 at a substantive order review meeting. She had been suspended for nine months from June 2025 over inappropriate access to patient records between March and September 2020, including records of people known to her. The panel concluded she had not engaged with the regulatory process or provided any evidence of insight or remediation, and the striking-off order will take effect at the end of 24 April 2026 when the current suspension expires.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee imposed a striking-off order on Glory Ogechi Nwachukwu-Udaku, a registered adult nurse from Northallerton, on 18 March 2026. The panel found that, while working at Woodlands Hospital, she had failed to meet the required standards in professionalism, record-keeping, infection control, and clinical skill, and that, at Mount Vale Care Home in August 2022, she had administered Lorazepam to a resident without it being prescribed and dishonestly attempted to conceal what she had done. The panel concluded the misconduct was fundamentally incompatible with continued registration. An interim suspension order of 18 months was imposed pending appeal.
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee imposed a striking-off order on Sunil Mushtaq, a registered adult nurse from Exeter, on 18 March 2026. The panel found his fitness to practise impaired by reason of his March 2025 conviction at Exeter Crown Court for sexual assault upon a female, committed in October 2022 while he was the agency nurse caring for the patient in the emergency department. He received an 18-month suspended prison sentence and is on the Sex Offenders' Register for ten years. The case was concluded by Consensual Panel Determination. An interim suspension order of 18 months was imposed pending appeal.
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee imposed a striking-off order on David Kenneth Paul Mckeown, a registered adult nurse from Belfast, on 17 March 2026. The panel found his fitness to practise impaired by reason of a January 2024 conviction at Belfast Magistrates Court for sending grossly offensive or indecent communications, namely online messages referring to sexual activity with children, contrary to section 127(1) of the Communications Act 2003. He had received a one-month suspended sentence. The panel concluded that the conduct was fundamentally incompatible with continued registration. An interim suspension order of 18 months was imposed pending appeal.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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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.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee directed a striking-off order against Aaron David Swanton, a registered adult nurse from Doncaster, on 17 March 2026 at a substantive order review hearing. He had previously been suspended for 12 months from February 2025 over misconduct and health-related matters that were heard in private. The panel found he had not engaged with the regulatory process, had not provided evidence of insight or remediation, and that a striking-off order was the appropriate sanction. The order will take effect at the end of 25 March 2026 when the current suspension expires.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee directed a striking-off order against Gines Nsamba Mabonzo Younga, a registered nurse and health visitor from Plymouth, on 17 March 2026 at a substantive order review meeting. She had been on a conditions of practice order over safeguarding and record-keeping failures from late 2019 in her health visitor role, including failing to investigate or escalate an injury to a child, not recognising faltering growth as a safeguarding concern, and inaccurate clinical records. The panel concluded she had shown limited insight and not engaged with remediation, and the striking-off order will take effect on 26 April 2026.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilMidwife
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee directed a striking-off order against Kahyana Emari Davis, a registered midwife from Bristol, on 16 March 2026 at a substantive order review hearing. Her registration had been suspended over two incidents of dishonesty in a clinical setting that put a vulnerable patient at risk, but she had not engaged with the NMC since September 2024 and had not demonstrated insight or remediation. The panel concluded a further suspension would serve no useful purpose, and the striking-off order will take effect on 23 April 2026 when the current suspension expires.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that registered nurse Blessing Nneka Nwosu had committed serious misconduct on the Neuro Intensive Care Unit at Leeds General Infirmary in 2022, including medication errors, failures to monitor critically ill patients, and dishonestly falsifying observation records. It also found that she dishonestly worked at a care home in 2023 in breach of an interim conditions of practice order. The panel ordered that she be struck off the register and imposed an interim suspension order of 18 months.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Mr O'Brien remains impaired and replaced his existing six-month suspension order with a striking-off order. The panel noted he had continued to disengage with the regulator, had not provided evidence of insight, reflection or steps to strengthen his practice, and remained liable to repeat the failings found proved. The strike-off takes effect at the end of 14 April 2026, when the current suspension order expires.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Mr Robertson, a community mental health nurse, was convicted at Lincoln Crown Court of sexual activity with a person with a mental disorder by a care worker, against a patient under his care. He was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment and added to the Sex Offenders Register for ten years. By Consensual Panel Determination, the panel directed that he be struck off the register and imposed an 18-month interim suspension order to cover the appeal period.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Mr Mhlanga, a mental health nurse, breached professional boundaries with three colleagues, including two student nurses he supervised, and that most of his conduct was sexually motivated. The panel found his fitness to practise impaired by reason of misconduct and directed that he be struck off the register. An 18-month interim suspension order was imposed to cover the appeal period.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that registered nurse Michael Brendan McLaren had committed misconduct involving sexually motivated and harassing behaviour towards female colleagues at NHS Lanarkshire in 2022, and had brought a knife into the workplace. The panel found his fitness to practise was impaired and ordered that he be struck off the NMC register. An interim suspension order of 18 months was imposed to cover any appeal period.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC Fitness to Practise Committee held a substantive hearing for Jiby Jose in a misconduct case. The cover page records proved facts for 1a), 1b), 1c), 1d), 1e), 1f), 1g), 1h), 1i), 1j), 1k), 1l), 3 in relation to 1a) – 1h), 4 in relation to 1a) – 1h), 5 a), 5c), 5e) 6 in relation to 5a), 5c) and 5e) and.... It recorded fitness to practise as impaired. The panel imposed a striking-off order. The published document gives the full reasons and underlying charge details.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC Fitness to Practise Committee held a substantive meeting for Vanessa Wells in a misconduct case. The cover page records proved facts for Charges 1 (in relation to 4,10,14 July 2023, 2, 5 September 2023 set out in Schedule 1), 2 (in relation to 4,10,14 July 2023, 2, 5 September 2023 set out in Schedule 1).... It recorded fitness to practise as impaired. The panel imposed a striking-off order. The published document gives the full reasons and underlying charge details.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC Fitness to Practise Committee held a substantive hearing for Tom Bell in a misconduct case. The cover page records proved facts for 1(i), 1(v), 1(vi), 1(vii), 3(i), 3(ii), 3(iii), 3(iv), 6a, 6b, and 7(i). It recorded fitness to practise as impaired (but not in relation to charges 6b and 7 (i). The panel imposed a striking-off order. The published document gives the full reasons and underlying charge details.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC Fitness to Practise Committee held a substantive order review hearing for Shirley McLean in a misconduct case. The panel was reviewing Shirley McLean's existing Suspension order (12 months). It recorded fitness to practise as impaired. The panel imposed a striking-off order. The published document gives the full reasons and underlying charge details.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC Fitness to Practise Committee held a substantive hearing for Judith Margaret Nicholas in a misconduct case. The cover page records proved facts for Charges 1, 2a, 2b, 2c, 3a, 3b, 4a, 5, 7, 8 and 9a. It recorded fitness to practise as impaired. The panel imposed a striking-off order. The published document gives the full reasons and underlying charge details.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC found that Miss Rebecca Chappelle, a registered adult nurse, engaged in sustained bullying, intimidation and racially motivated discrimination toward overseas colleagues at a care home between December 2021 and March 2023. The panel found 14 charges proved, concluded her fitness to practise was impaired, and determined she demonstrated no insight or remorse. A striking-off order was imposed. Miss Chappelle did not attend and had not engaged with the proceedings.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC Fitness to Practise Committee held a substantive meeting for James Mark Allen in a misconduct case. The cover page records proved facts for Charges 1(a), 1(b), 2(a), 2(b)(ii), 3(a)(i), 3(a)(ii), 3(a)(iii), 3(a)(iv), 3(b)(i), 3(b)(ii), 3(b)(iii), 3(b)(iv), 4(a), 4(b) and 4(c). It recorded fitness to practise as impaired. The panel imposed a striking-off order. The published document gives the full reasons and underlying charge details.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC Fitness to Practise Committee held a substantive order review meeting for Tasleem Akhtar in a misconduct case. The panel was reviewing Tasleem Akhtar's existing Suspension order (6 months). It recorded fitness to practise as impaired. The panel imposed a striking-off order. The published document gives the full reasons and underlying charge details.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC Fitness to Practise Committee held a substantive order review meeting for Lorraine Hill in a misconduct case. The panel was reviewing Lorraine Hill's existing Suspension order (6 months). It recorded fitness to practise as impaired. The panel imposed a striking-off order. The published document gives the full reasons and underlying charge details.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC found that Jayne Carson's fitness to practise was impaired after proved findings that she misappropriated money, falsified records and signatures, and made misleading patient-fund records. The panel also found a private health charge proved, while one dishonesty charge was not proved. It imposed a striking-off order and an 18-month interim suspension order.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC found that Mrs Yvonne Jane Kearsey, a registered adult nurse, failed to provide adequate care to three vulnerable care home residents in 2021, with multiple failings in record keeping, incident reporting and care planning. The panel found 17 charges proved, found her fitness to practise impaired, and concluded she had provided no evidence of insight or remediation. A striking-off order was imposed on 13 February 2026.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC found that Miss Jane Barker, a registered adult nurse employed as Clinical Lead for Endoscopy, attended work whilst unfit for duty, misappropriated controlled drugs, and was convicted of theft and possession of a Class A drug. The panel found all charges proved, concluded her fitness to practise was impaired, and imposed a striking-off order on 11 February 2026.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilMidwife
Struck off the register
The NMC found that Ms Bjork Sabino, a registered midwife, had her fitness to practise reviewed following a 12-month suspension for misconduct and lack of competence including dishonesty. The panel found she had taken no steps to remediate during the suspension period and had no intention to return to nursing. The panel concluded the only appropriate sanction was a striking-off order, taking effect on 18 March 2026.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee imposed a striking-off order on Elizabeth Elaine Greenhill, a registered mental health nurse from Leeds, on 6 February 2026. The committee found charges of misconduct proved, including racially discriminatory conduct towards a colleague at a care home in 2019. The panel found no mitigating features and determined that the discriminatory behaviour was fundamentally incompatible with Ms Greenhill remaining on the register.
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The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee reviewed Susan Diane Oosenbrugh's existing suspension order at a meeting on 6 February 2026 and found that her fitness to practise remained impaired. The original misconduct was linked to the death of a resident. No evidence of insight, remorse or remediation had been provided. The panel determined that a striking-off order was necessary, to take effect on 26 March 2026 when the existing suspension expired.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Struck off the register
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Louise Graham, a registered nurse in North Lanarkshire, took medication from hospital supplies for personal use on one or more occasions between October and November 2023, acting dishonestly. The panel found the conduct fundamentally incompatible with remaining on the register and imposed a striking-off order.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Struck off the register
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Tracy Jane Chamberlain, a Clinical Lead at Springfield Hospital, engaged in racially motivated and discriminatory conduct, bullying, and inappropriate behaviour toward multiple colleagues between 2022 and 2023. The panel found that her conduct was fundamentally incompatible with remaining on the register and imposed a striking-off order.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Struck off the register
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Helen McLaughlan, a nurse at Wexham Park Hospital, dispensed medication from the hospital's automated system on numerous occasions without clinical justification between November 2020 and April 2021, taking it for personal use. The panel found this conduct dishonest and fundamentally incompatible with remaining on the register, and imposed a striking-off order.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Struck off the register
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee reviewed an existing suspension order on Dorothy Onwuteaka and found that her fitness to practise remained impaired. No evidence of insight or practice improvement had been provided despite guidance from multiple previous review panels. The panel determined that a striking-off order was the only sanction adequate to protect the public, to take effect on 12 March 2026 when the existing suspension expired.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Struck off the register
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee imposed a striking-off order on Kirsty Victoria James, a registered adult nurse from Cheshire, at a review hearing on 2 February 2026, taking immediate effect. The panel found that she had not engaged with the regulatory process since the original substantive hearing in 2023, had not revalidated, and had provided no evidence of remediation or insight. The original charges included accessing patient records without authority and medication administration failures.