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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Health and Care Professions CouncilPhysiotherapist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel ordered Thangapandian Subramanian to be struck off after he admitted inappropriate patient handling, inappropriate treatment goals and record-keeping failures. It found lack of competence and separate misconduct in two handling incidents, with continuing impairment and no meaningful insight or remediation. The striking-off order was based on misconduct. A separate interim suspension covers the appeal period and any appeal, for a maximum of 18 months.
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.
Health and Care Professions CouncilOccupational therapist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel ordered Michael Hollingworth to be struck off after finding that he accessed or possessed five indecent images of children. An allegation of uploading images was removed because there was no supporting evidence. The panel found misconduct, current impairment and a risk of repetition. It proceeded on the underlying conduct rather than a conviction ground because the criminal case ended in a conditional discharge. A separate interim suspension covers the appeal period and any appeal.
Health and Care Professions CouncilParamedic
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel ordered Yannek Benson to be struck off after finding dishonesty about his experience, clinical failings, driving-related risks and misconduct towards colleagues. Allegations about an arrival-time message and billing additional hours were not proved, and a separate employer-disclosure allegation was discontinued. The panel found continuing impairment, limited insight and remediation, and a risk of repetition. It imposed a separate interim suspension of up to 18 months pending appeal.
Health and Care Professions CouncilOperating department practitioner
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel ordered Mamady Konate to be struck off after finding that he engaged in sexual activity with a colleague in an operating theatre during working hours. It found a risk of patient harm from compromising the sterile area, limited insight and no demonstrated remediation. No actual patient harm was established. Lack of consent was not charged or determined. A separate interim suspension covers the appeal period and any appeal for up to 18 months.
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.
Health and Care Professions CouncilRadiographer
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel approved a consent order striking off Geoffrey P Fitzgerald following convictions for attempted sexual communication with a child and attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity. He admitted the allegation and impairment and agreed to striking off. The panel found the order protected the public and was consistent with the public interest. A separate interim suspension covers the appeal period and any appeal, for a maximum of 18 months.
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.
Health and Care Professions CouncilPhysiotherapist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel ordered Rezaul Hossain Razu to be struck off following two convictions for sexually assaulting service users and a dishonest failure to notify the regulator of the criminal charges. It found current impairment, no evidence of remediation and a high risk of repetition. A separate interim suspension covers the appeal period and any appeal, for a maximum of 18 months.
Health and Care Professions CouncilParamedic
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel ordered Paul S Parsons to be struck off for inappropriate workplace comments and dishonest good-character declarations on four registration renewals. The comments were sexual in nature, but sexual motivation was not proved. A separate allegation of failing to self-refer an employer warning was not proved. The panel found limited insight and a continuing risk of repetition. A separate interim suspension covers the appeal period and any appeal for up to 18 months.
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.
Health and Care Professions CouncilChiropodist / podiatrist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS review panel ordered David F Kirby to be struck off when his existing suspension expired. The original misconduct concerned iodine aftercare information, recording a treatment discussion and attempting treatment after consent was withdrawn. The panel found continuing impairment, no evidence of remediation and a high risk of repetition. It concluded that further suspension would not adequately protect the public.
Health and Care Professions CouncilOperating department practitioner
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel ordered Gurprit Kaloya to be struck off after proving three incidents of dishonestly taking and self-administering midazolam and being intoxicated at work. It found misconduct, impairment and a significant risk of repetition, while recognising later negative drug tests. The order states an effective date of 19 June 2026. A separate interim suspension covers the appeal period and any appeal for up to 18 months.
Health and Care Professions CouncilParamedic
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel ordered Michael Diskin to be struck off following a private hearing. The public determination publishes the order but withholds the substantive findings and reasons to protect another person's privacy. A separate interim suspension covers the appeal period and any appeal for a maximum of 18 months.
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.
Health and Care Professions CouncilHearing aid dispenser
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS review panel ordered Diane-Marie Banks to be struck off, with effect stated as 23 May 2026, after finding continuing impairment and no evidence that she had addressed earlier clinical misconduct. The proved concerns involved hearing tests, hearing aids and missed referrals. Allegations of fabricated audiograms and dishonesty were not proved. The panel concluded that further suspension was no longer appropriate.
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.
Health and Care Professions CouncilBiomedical scientist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS review panel ordered Gerald J Higgins to be struck off when the existing order expired. The hearing was held wholly in private. The public record provides the outcome but redacts the underlying matters and does not publish the substantive findings or reasons.
Health and Care Professions CouncilPractitioner psychologist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel ordered Lucy Leonard to be struck off after a hearing conducted in private to protect another person's identity and private life. The published decision redacts the substantive findings. Leonard has appealed, and an interim suspension remains in place until the appeal ends, subject to a maximum of 18 months.
Health and Care Professions CouncilRadiographer
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel ordered Rodrigo J Cabral Rodrigues to be removed from the register after finding persistent sexual misconduct towards a colleague, including sexual assault, intimidation and abuse of his senior position. It found the conduct fundamentally incompatible with registration and imposed an interim suspension during the 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.
Health and Care Professions CouncilRadiographer
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel ordered Jonathan Chaplin to be struck off after considering his convictions for attempting sexual communication with a child and attempting to incite a girl under 13 to engage in sexual activity. It found the offending incompatible with registration and imposed an interim suspension during the appeal period.
Health and Care Professions CouncilParamedic
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel ordered Luke Hopper to be struck off after finding conduct involving controlled drugs and dishonesty fundamentally incompatible with registration. Parts of the published allegation are redacted. The panel also imposed an interim suspension to protect the public during the appeal period, subject to a maximum of 18 months.
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.
Health and Care Professions CouncilPhysiotherapist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel ordered Sunil Shanker Kunder to be struck off after finding sexually motivated misconduct in breach of trust and dishonest failures to notify the regulator of his suspension and dismissal. It decided that no lesser sanction would protect the public and imposed an interim suspension during the appeal period.
Health and Care Professions CouncilOccupational therapist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel ordered Umalini Kathirgamanathan to be struck off after reviewing longstanding competence concerns. It found no evidence of insight, remediation, training or progress and a high risk that the previous failings would recur. The striking-off order applied when her existing suspension expired on 13 May 2026.
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.