Published regulator decisions
UK healthcare practitioners struck off the register
Being struck off (the regulator's term is "erasure") removes the practitioner from the register. They are no longer permitted to practise this profession in the UK. This page lists recent published erasure decisions for doctors, nurses, midwives, dentists, and dental care professionals.
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Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Struck off the register
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
Struck off the register
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.
HCPCParamedic
Struck off the register
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.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
Struck off the register
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.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Struck off the register
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
Struck off the register
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.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Struck off the register
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
Struck off the register
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
Struck off the register
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
Struck off the register
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
Struck off the register
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
Struck off the register
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
Struck off the register
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.
Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
Struck off the register
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Keith Wolverson's fitness to practise remained impaired by reason of misconduct relating to inappropriate conduct with a patient in 2018, dishonesty about his reasons, and later working as a locum doctor while suspended in November 2022. He did not attend the hearing and had disengaged from the regulator since May 2025. The tribunal directed that his name be erased from the medical register.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Struck off the register
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
Struck off the register
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
Struck off the register
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
Struck off the register
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
Struck off the register
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
Struck off the register
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
Struck off the register
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
Struck off the register
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
Struck off the register
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
Struck off the register
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
Struck off the register
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
Struck off the register
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.
HCPCParamedic
Struck off the register
Stephen Doohan
The HCPTS panel decided that Stephen Doohan 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.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Struck off the register
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
Struck off the register
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
Struck off the register
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.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDental nurse
Struck off the register
The GDC tribunal decided that Miss Owens, a dental nurse, had her fitness to practise found impaired by reason of misconduct and adverse health following a Health Committee hearing held in private. The tribunal directed that her name be erased from the dental care professionals register, with an immediate suspension order pending the appeal period.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Struck off the register
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.
HCPCRadiographer
Struck off the register
Maria Haq
The HCPTS panel decided that Maria Haq 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.
HCPCOperating Department Practitioner
Struck off the register
Colin Fernandes
The HCPTS panel decided that Colin Fernandes 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.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Struck off the register
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.
HCPCChiropodist Podiatrist
Struck off the register
Mrs Rebecca Delaney
The HCPTS panel decided that Mrs Rebecca Delaney 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.
HCPCDietitian
Struck off the register
Aiwanehi Sandra Aigbokhaevbo
The HCPTS panel decided that Aiwanehi Sandra Aigbokhaevbo 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.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Struck off the register
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
Struck off the register
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.
Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
Struck off the register
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Jonathon Dean, an anaesthetic trainee, injected a woman with anaesthetic drugs in her bedroom in December 2018 for sexual purposes, without the equipment to monitor her safely. He also admitted attending two London hospitals against instructions and was later convicted at Cambridge Crown Court of nine counts of theft and one of possessing a Class A drug, receiving 25 months in prison. The tribunal directed that his name be erased from the medical register.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Struck off the register
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
Struck off the register
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
Struck off the register
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
Struck off the register
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
Struck off the register
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.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
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.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDental nurse
Struck off the register
The GDC tribunal decided that Hannah Susan White's fitness to practise was impaired by misconduct and ordered her erasure from the dental care professionals register. The Professional Conduct Committee found that Miss White had submitted whitening tray prescriptions in her own name without proper authorisation, taken cash totalling £668 and teeth whitening gel from her employer without permission, and provided gel to colleagues outside her scope of practice. All charges were found proved. The Committee found no evidence of genuine insight or remorse, and determined that only erasure adequately protected the public.
HCPCPhysiotherapist
Struck off the register
Robert M Williams
The HCPTS panel decided that Robert M Williams 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.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Struck off the register
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
Struck off the register
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.