NurseNursing and Midwifery Council 21F0086O
Sunil Mushtaq
Sunil Mushtaq, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 21F0086O). Most recent decision: Erasure (struck off the register) on 18 March 2026 by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
Current status
Most recent outcome: Erasure (struck off the register), decided 18 March 2026 by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
What does “struck off the register” mean?
Being struck off (the regulator calls this "erasure") removes the practitioner from the register. They are no longer permitted to practise this profession in the UK. Erasure can be reviewed after a minimum of five years, but is otherwise indefinite.
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Decisions and hearings
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Erasure(struck off the register)
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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