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
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Investigating Committee found that Temitope Egbinola Adesiyan's entry on the nursing register was incorrectly made, because her computer-based test was taken at the Yunnik test centre in Nigeria, where the NMC declared all results void after evidence of widespread fraud. The panel noted there was no information suggesting she personally used fraud. It directed the Registrar to remove her entry from the register.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Investigating Committee found that Olufunke Rachael Ekanade's entry on the nursing register was incorrectly made, because her computer-based test was taken at the Yunnik test centre in Nigeria, where the NMC declared all results void after evidence of widespread fraud. The panel noted there was no information suggesting she personally used fraud. It directed the Registrar to remove her entry from the register.
Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
Erasure(struck off the register)
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Matthew Jones, a GP, carried out sexually motivated examinations of two patients in 2015 that were not clinically indicated, touching their genital areas, and that one patient was vulnerable due to her mental health. It also found he took sexual photographs of himself on a hospital landing in 2019. The tribunal decided his fitness to practise was impaired by misconduct and ordered that his name be erased from the medical register.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Mrs Roberts, a registered nurse, committed serious misconduct, including reducing patients' IV fluids and bladder irrigation without clinical justification, intimidating patients, and belittling and racially discriminating against colleagues. It found her fitness to practise impaired, citing deep-seated attitudinal concerns and no insight or remediation, and directed that she be struck off the register.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Stefania Pezzi, a registered nurse in Kent, remained impaired when it reviewed a 12-month suspension order imposed in 2025 for dishonesty in a job application, in which she omitted a previous nursing role and concealed that she had been dismissed and referred to the NMC. The panel found no change since the original hearing — no further insight, remediation or engagement — and noted her registration had lapsed before replacing the suspension with a striking-off order.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Karen Nutbeam, a registered nurse in Surrey, remained impaired when it reviewed a 12-month conditions of practice order imposed in 2025 for shouting at a vulnerable care-home resident. The panel noted she had shown no insight or remediation, had let her registration lapse and did not intend to return to practice, and that conditions were no longer workable. It replaced the order with a striking-off order, taking effect on 24 July 2026.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that registered nurse Juliette Johnson's fitness to practise was impaired by reason of misconduct. The panel found she had breached professional boundaries and acted with a lack of integrity by accepting monetary gifts totalling £39,300, in twelve cheques, from an elderly patient and his wife over about two and a half years. It made a striking-off order.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that registered nurse Cheryl Lee Feltner's fitness to practise was impaired by reason of misconduct. The panel found she had entered an inappropriate personal relationship with a vulnerable 16-year-old she had cared for, contacted them without clinical justification, encouraged them to abscond from their care home, and given them money. Finding a real risk of repetition, it made a striking-off order.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The GDC tribunal decided that dentist Colin Duncan McLauchlan should be erased from the register with immediate suspension. The Professional Conduct Committee, sitting in his absence, found widespread failings in examinations, radiograph reporting, diagnosis and consent across 39 patients between 2018 and 2023, and found he acted dishonestly towards four patients, including denying he had left a dental bur in a patient's mouth and misattributing his own root canal work to another dentist.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that registered nurse William Sinclair Malcolm was convicted at Newcastle Crown Court in March 2025 of sexual assault, ill-treatment or wilful neglect of individuals in his care, and racially aggravated harassment, and was sentenced to 39 months' imprisonment. The panel found his fitness to practise impaired by reason of his convictions, identified serious attitudinal concerns and no insight, and imposed a striking-off order.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDental nurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The GDC tribunal decided that dental nurse Salama Begum should be erased from the register, with an immediate suspension order. The Professional Conduct Committee found she offered and provided tooth whitening services outside a dental nurse's scope of practice and without indemnity cover, putting patient safety at risk, and that she acted dishonestly by denying the work to her employer and falsely telling the GDC it had approved the service.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Mrs Erive's fitness to practise remained impaired at a review of her conditions of practice order. She had not engaged with the NMC or shown any compliance, remediation or insight since misconduct found proved in relation to a resident's care and medication practice in 2022. The panel directed that her name be struck off the register, effective 8 July 2026.
Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
Erasure(struck off the register)
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Andrew Neil Hopper's fitness to practise was impaired by reason of his criminal conviction. In September 2025 he was convicted at Truro Crown Court of two counts of fraud by false representation, over insurance claims worth more than £460,000, and three counts of possession of extreme pornographic images, and was sentenced to 32 months in prison. The tribunal found he had shown no meaningful insight and erased his name from the medical register.
Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
Erasure(struck off the register)
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Simon Moran's fitness to practise remained impaired by reason of misconduct. His case concerned dishonesty: before retiring he had used a colleague's prescription pads to prescribe medication to himself and a close relative. At this second review the tribunal noted he had not engaged with the regulator or shown any insight or remediation across two previous hearings, and decided to erase his name from the medical register.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Simon Mudepu, a mental health nurse from North Yorkshire, engaged in sexually motivated conduct and harassment towards two junior female colleagues between February and July 2024, including unwanted physical contact and comments. The panel found his fitness to practise impaired and made a striking-off order, with an 18-month interim suspension order to cover any appeal period.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that nurse Faith Chareka's fitness to practise was impaired by reason of her conviction for fraud by abuse of position. While a senior sister in an emergency department, she added 50 shifts she did not work to the electronic roster over two years, gaining £19,575 and 540 hours of time off in lieu. The panel made a striking-off order, with an 18-month interim suspension covering the appeal period.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
Ibukunola Oyekunle Omoniyi Fisher
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Ibukunola Oyekunle Omoniyi Fisher, an adult nurse from Northampton, dishonestly produced three falsified sick notes while employed by Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust and worked agency nursing shifts while receiving sick pay she knew she was not entitled to. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired and made a striking-off order, with an 18-month interim suspension covering any appeal period.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that John Andrew Charters, a mental health and adult nurse from Inverness, was convicted in April 2024 of assaulting two care home residents, in 2014 and 2022. The panel found his fitness to practise impaired, decided a striking-off order was the only sufficient sanction, and directed that he be struck off the register, with an 18-month interim suspension covering the appeal period.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Sandra Mohamed's fitness to practise remained impaired by misconduct and lack of competence, relating to medication administration errors and failed drug competency assessments in 2019. At a review hearing on 27 May 2026, the panel replaced her suspension order with a striking-off order, noting she had disengaged from the NMC and had not shown insight or strengthened practice.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Arlan Vicente's fitness to practise was impaired by reason of misconduct and imposed a striking-off order, with an 18-month interim suspension order. The hearing was held entirely in private under Rule 19 of the Fitness to Practise Rules, so the details of the charges and findings are not in the public record. The published record confirms that some charges were found proved and others not proved.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that nurse Tracy Ann Ellis shared posts and wrote comments on Facebook about immigrants and ethnic minorities over about two years, and that her actions were offensive, racist and racially motivated, seeking to cause offence and incite hatred. Finding limited insight and a continuing risk of repetition, the panel imposed a striking-off order, with an 18-month interim suspension order pending any appeal.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Andre Miguel Maia Seica Neves, a senior staff nurse in Bristol, performed ECGs and a bladder scan on junior colleagues and invited them to practise procedures on him, contrary to standard training practice, and that his actions were sexually motivated, seeking sexual gratification. The panel found his fitness to practise impaired and struck him off the register, imposing an 18-month interim suspension to cover any appeal.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that nurse Claire Ann Fitzpatrick, while a care home manager in Cumbria, dishonestly withdrew money from two vulnerable residents' accounts partly for her own benefit, stole money from a colleague's home, borrowed money from junior colleagues, and failed to keep proper care records or notify the Care Quality Commission of two residents' deaths. The panel ordered that she be struck off the register.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Emma Elizabeth Doherty, a learning disabilities nurse filmed in the BBC Panorama programme about the Edenfield Centre in Manchester, made derogatory comments about vulnerable service users — including saying one "needs a good thrashing" and should be sent to prison — and failed to challenge a support worker's derogatory comment. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired and made a striking-off order, with an 18-month interim suspension covering any appeal.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that nurse Laura Coulbeck acted dishonestly by falsely telling her employer she had suffered a close family bereavement, for which she received paid compassionate leave, and by reporting pregnancy-related illness when she was not pregnant, for which she received paid sick leave. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired on public interest grounds and imposed a striking-off order, with an 18-month interim suspension pending any appeal.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that nurse Alison Jayne Marshall's fitness to practise was impaired after her conviction for stealing medication from the hospital where she worked. She was captured on CCTV removing medication on 12 occasions over eight days and pleaded guilty at Antrim Magistrates' Court. Finding no evidence of insight or remediation, the panel imposed a striking-off order, with an 18-month interim suspension pending any appeal.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNursing associate
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that nursing associate Gemma Louise Banks' fitness to practise was impaired after she was convicted of two offences of being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs, heroin and crack cocaine. The panel decided the convictions were fundamentally incompatible with her remaining on the register and imposed a striking-off order, with an 18-month interim suspension order to cover any appeal period.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that James Cole, a mental health nurse in Essex, administered controlled drugs without a witness on two occasions, gave a patient double the maximum prescribed dose of lorazepam, and dishonestly amended the patient's medicine card to conceal the error. It also found he failed to record a prescription change in a patient's handover notes. The panel found his fitness to practise impaired and made a striking-off order.
Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
Erasure(struck off the register)
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Mohan Babu's fitness to practise is impaired by reason of his conviction. In January 2024 he was convicted at Portsmouth Crown Court of four counts of sexual assault against three female patients, committed while he worked as a locum GP, and was sentenced to 42 months' imprisonment. The tribunal found the conduct incompatible with continued registration, erased his name from the medical register and imposed an immediate order of suspension.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Janet Valerie Burroughs, a nurse at an Essex NHS trust, dishonestly requested and took Lorazepam tablets belonging to the trust without clinical justification, intending to give them to a relative. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired and made a striking-off order, concluding the dishonesty and abuse of trust were incompatible with continued registration.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDental nurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The GDC tribunal decided that dental nurse and orthodontic therapist Harpreet Kaur Kundola should be erased from the register. The Professional Conduct Committee found her fitness to practise impaired by her 2024 conviction at Leeds Crown Court for conspiring to pervert the course of public justice, for which she received a suspended prison sentence. The panel said her behaviour was fundamentally incompatible with continued registration and suspended her registration immediately pending the appeal period.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Helen Oluyemisi Balogun made discriminatory comments about patients based on race and religion, including antisemitic remarks, and harassed two colleagues. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired by reason of misconduct, citing very limited insight, and made a striking-off order removing her from the register. An 18-month interim suspension order covers any appeal period.
Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
Erasure(struck off the register)
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Mark Westbrook, a retired GP, was convicted at Newport Magistrates' Court in November 2025 of three offences of making indecent images of children, for which he received a suspended prison sentence, a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and a 10-year notification requirement. The tribunal found his fitness to practise impaired by reason of his conviction and, noting the high risk to public protection and absence of insight or remediation, erased his name from the medical register.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilMidwife
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Katie Louise Windle, a midwife working in triage at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, was rude to patients, failed to examine a patient in labour adequately, incorrectly advised patients not to attend hospital, and did not respect patients' dignity or birth wishes. The panel decided her fitness to practise was impaired and made a striking-off order, removing her from the register.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that nurse Belinda Jayne Kay dishonestly recorded abdominal examinations, a child's observations, and a DNACPR conversation with a patient's relative that had not taken place, while working as an advanced nurse practitioner at a GP practice. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired and directed that she be struck off the register, imposing an 18-month interim suspension order.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that nurse Nyarari Hwayire's fitness to practise remained impaired when it reviewed her conditions of practice order on 1 May 2026. The original case involved medication errors, unprofessional behaviour towards a colleague, and storing photographs of medication charts on her personal phone. The panel found limited insight and no evidence of strengthened practice, and decided a striking-off order was the only sanction that would protect the public. The order takes effect on 10 June 2026.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that mental health nurse Eruore Augustina Obibi's fitness to practise remained impaired when it reviewed her suspension order on 1 May 2026. The original charges, found proved, included failing to preserve patient safety, failing to carry out one-to-one observation of a patient, and behaving inappropriately towards a patient in breach of professional boundaries. Citing her disengagement and lack of insight, the panel replaced the suspension with a striking-off order effective 12 June 2026.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that children's nurse Natalie Jane Smith's fitness to practise remained impaired when it reviewed her suspension order on 1 May 2026. The original case concerned a lack of competence, including medication errors, record-keeping failures, and practising beyond her training. Noting she had not engaged with the NMC since January 2023, the panel decided a striking-off order was the only sanction that would protect the public. It takes effect on 28 June 2026.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that learning disabilities nurse Carole Ann Summers' fitness to practise was impaired by reason of misconduct, and it made a striking-off order removing her from the register. The panel heard the case entirely in private under Rule 19, so the detailed charges and findings are not in the public record. An 18-month interim suspension order was also imposed.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that adult nurse Xoisa Hlatshwayo failed to follow controlled drugs procedures at a care home, forged a colleague's signature in the controlled drug book, sought to persuade the colleague to sign records for administration she had not witnessed, and slept while on duty over a prolonged period. Finding her fitness to practise impaired, the panel imposed a striking-off order and an 18-month interim suspension order.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilMidwife
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that midwife Stella Roberts, a former Head of Midwifery at St George's University NHS Foundation Trust, bullied and belittled colleagues over a sustained period and acted dishonestly by not telling West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust she had been suspended and placed under disciplinary investigation. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired and made a striking-off order, with an 18-month interim suspension pending any appeal.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that nurse Florence Ayodele Fayomi dishonestly told a 999 operator that the care home where she worked had a defibrillator when it did not, left a resident during a life-threatening emergency, failed to reposition a vulnerable resident, and did not carry out checks after another resident's unwitnessed fall. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired and directed that she be struck off the register, imposing an 18-month interim suspension order.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that adult nurse Vigneswari Ganason's fitness to practise was impaired by reason of her conviction for stealing a bank card belonging to a patient in her care and using it for several transactions. The panel imposed a striking-off order, finding her dishonesty fundamentally incompatible with remaining on the register, and an 18-month interim suspension order pending any appeal.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Sean Brian Patrick Kelly's fitness to practise was impaired after his conviction at Worthing Magistrates' Court for attempting to send sexual communications to a child and for making an indecent photograph of a child. The panel accepted a consensual panel determination and imposed a striking-off order, removing him from the register, with an 18-month interim suspension order to cover any appeal period.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Ian O'Connor's fitness to practise remained impaired at a review of his suspension order. The original 2020 charges, found proved in 2024, involved changing two patients' early-warning scores, failing to record or escalate their condition, and failing to make his own observations. Having received no evidence of insight or engagement, the panel replaced the suspension with a striking-off order taking effect on 2 June 2026.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Erasure(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
Erasure(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.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
Erasure(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
Erasure(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
Erasure(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.