Published regulator decisions
UK healthcare practitioners suspended from practice
A suspension is a fixed-term pause on the right to practise. The practitioner cannot work in the regulated profession during the suspension. This page lists recent published suspension decisions across the UK healthcare regulators covered by MedicWatch.
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Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 4 months
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that registered nurse Laura McGuire's fitness to practise is impaired. She admitted both charges against her. The committee imposed a suspension order of four months, without review, and made no interim order. The whole hearing was held in private under Rule 19, so the charges and the committee's reasons are not in the public record. The case is recorded as a misconduct case.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 1 year
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Sandeep Selvaraj, a registered adult nurse at Ulster Hospital, showed a lack of competence in medication administration, record keeping and wound care over about three years, and acted dishonestly on four occasions to conceal failures in patient care, including forging a colleague's signature. The panel found his fitness to practise impaired and suspended him for 12 months, with a review before the order ends.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 1 year
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that registered nurse Ashley Hayden Newson's fitness to practise is impaired. The committee accepted a consensual panel determination, with charges 1 and 2 found proved, and imposed a suspension order of 12 months with a review, together with an 18-month interim suspension order. The case is recorded as a health case. The whole meeting was held in private under Rule 19, so the charges and the committee's reasons are not in the public record.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 1 year
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee decided that Ashley Hayden Newson, a registered adult nurse, was impaired by reason of health. The panel accepted a consensual panel determination and found charges 1, 2a, 2b(i), 2b(ii) and 2b(iii) proved. It imposed a suspension order for 12 months, with a review before it ends, and an 18-month interim suspension order. The hearing was held entirely in private under Rule 19, so the details are not in the public record.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 1 year
The NMC found that Lisa Edwards, a registered nurse, made demeaning remarks to a bedbound care home resident about her smell, swore at a healthcare assistant colleague, and spoke dismissively to a second resident's relatives about funding for his care, including saying patients would eventually rot in their beds. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired by reason of misconduct and imposed a suspension order for 12 months, with a review. An interim suspension order of 18 months was also made.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDental nurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 1 month
The GDC tribunal decided that dental nurse Fatemazehra Naushad Mawji should be suspended for one month. The Professional Conduct Committee made the order on 5 August 2026, and the suspension takes effect after the appeal period. The GDC's notice of inquiry set out charges covering two sets of driving convictions in 2021 and 2022, a failure to tell the GDC about those convictions and about two criminal charges, and a failure to declare a conviction when applying for the additional title of dental therapist. The committee's findings on those charges are not published.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDental nurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 4 months
Serenidade Bela Do Nascimento Fernandes
The GDC tribunal decided that the suspension of Serenidade Bela Do Nascimento Fernandes's registration as a dental nurse should be extended. At a review hearing on 5 August 2026 the Professional Conduct Committee extended the suspension by a further four months, and the order will be reviewed before it ends. Ms Fernandes has been suspended since 8 May 2026. The GDC records that the decision is within the appeal period.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 2 months
The NMC found that Nicola Paris Haran, a registered nurse, accessed the clinical records of eight patients and a colleague without clinical justification between January and November 2021, including those of a child who had died, and was dishonest when first asked about two of them. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired on public interest grounds only, and said she posed no risk to the public and had remediated her practice. It imposed a two-month suspension order without a review.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 3 months
The GDC tribunal decided that Mr Amar Sundeep Arjuna, a dentist, should be suspended from the register for three months. The Professional Conduct Committee made the decision on 4 August 2026, after a hearing on 3 August 2026, and ordered that his registration be suspended immediately. The suspension will be reviewed before the order ends. The published hearing record sets out the outcome only, so the charges and the Committee's reasons are not available. The record notes the decision was within the appeal period.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 4 months
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that registered nurse Phylicia Khadijatu Sheriff slapped a colleague on the cheek during a handover at North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust on 29 May 2024. Ms Sheriff admitted the charge. The panel found the slap was deliberate but impulsive and out of character, and decided her insight needed further development. It suspended her registration for four months and imposed an 18-month interim suspension order covering the appeal period.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 1 year
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Levi Whalley, a registered nurse, was convicted at Blackburn Magistrates Court on 24 February 2025 of being concerned in the fraudulent evasion of prohibition of the importation of a class B drug. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired on public interest grounds only, noting no clinical or public protection concerns, and imposed a 12-month suspension order with a review, plus an 18-month interim suspension order.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 1 year
The GDC tribunal decided that Mr Vasileios Avgeris, a dentist, should be suspended from the register for 12 months. At a review hearing on 24 July 2026, the Health Committee found that his fitness to practise remained impaired because of an adverse health condition. It decided that the conditions placed on his registration in 2024 were no longer workable, revoked them and imposed suspension instead. It also imposed an immediate suspension order. The order will be reviewed shortly before the 12 months end. The hearing was held in private and the health details are not public.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 6 months
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Edward Allen Lopez's fitness to practise was impaired by reason of misconduct. The panel found he grabbed a junior colleague's genitals in a hospital stairwell in September 2024, that the conduct was sexual in nature and amounted to harassment, but was not in pursuit of sexual gratification. Noting his admissions, apology and 25-year career without previous concerns, the panel imposed a six-month suspension order with a review, and an interim suspension order for 18 months.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 1 year
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Benedicte Briand's fitness to practise was impaired. The committee found charges 1 and 2 proved and imposed a suspension order for 12 months, together with an interim suspension order for 18 months. The NMC recorded the matter as a health and caution case. The hearing was held entirely in private under Rule 19 of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (Fitness to Practise) Rules 2004, so the detailed charges and reasons are not in the public record.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 1 year
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Olanma Monalisa Davidson's fitness to practise remains impaired. Reviewing a conditions of practice order imposed in July 2025 for misconduct in a care home, the panel found little evidence that she had complied with the conditions, undertaken training or produced a reflective piece. It replaced the conditions with a suspension order for 12 months, taking effect at the end of 12 August 2026.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 1 year
The NMC found that Maureen Jindu Ugbah, a registered nurse, lacked competence across fundamental areas of nursing practice while working at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Trust in 2023, including patient assessment, medication administration, record keeping and escalation of concerns. The panel also found misconduct arising from her failure to cooperate with an NMC investigation, and that she lacked the knowledge of English needed to practise safely. It imposed a 12-month suspension order and an 18-month interim suspension order.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 1 year
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Jade Robertson (Gregory), a registered adult nurse, had a number of charges proved relating to lack of competence and health. The committee determined that her fitness to practise was impaired and imposed a 12-month suspension order, together with an 18-month interim suspension order. The hearing was held entirely in private under Rule 19, so the detailed findings are not in the public record.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 1 month
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Laura Elaine McGuigan, a registered mental health nurse, had charges 1a and 1b proved against her and that her fitness to practise is impaired. The committee imposed a suspension order for one month and made no interim order. The NMC recorded the type of case as a caution. The hearing was held entirely in private under Rule 19, so the details of the charges and the panel's reasons are not in the public record.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 6 months
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Hannah Elaine Forbes, a learning disabilities nurse who worked as a team lead at Mary Ann Evans Hospice in Warwickshire, bullied and demeaned colleagues and made an inappropriate remark about the care of a patient with HIV. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired and suspended her for six months with a review, imposing an 18-month interim suspension order pending any appeal.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 3 months
The NMC found that registered nurse Henrietta Gibson-Leigertwood grabbed a vulnerable mental health patient, pulled the patient by the hair, did not use de-escalation techniques, and then made an inaccurate and dishonest Datix entry claiming the patient had attacked her. She admitted the charges. The Fitness to Practise Committee found her fitness to practise impaired by reason of misconduct and imposed a three-month suspension order with a review, plus an 18-month interim suspension order.
Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 4 months
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Ahmed Abdelghani's fitness to practise was impaired by reason of misconduct. He admitted that, across three appraisals between 2021 and 2023, he submitted five certificates for training courses he had not attended, and that this was dishonest. The tribunal found the dishonesty was repeated but that he had shown significant insight and remediation and gained no benefit. It suspended his registration for four months.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 1 year
The GDC tribunal decided that the suspension on dentist Nafisa Kaduji's registration should be extended for a further 12 months. The decision was made by the Health Committee at a review hearing on 2 July 2026. Ms Kaduji has been suspended since 13 August 2024. The order will be reviewed again before it expires. At the time of publication, the decision was within the appeal period.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 1 year
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Lydia Edwards, an adult nurse working in Bristol, failed to demonstrate the standards of knowledge, skill and judgement required to practise without supervision as a Band 5 nurse between September 2019 and February 2023, in areas including patient assessment, medication administration, time management, record-keeping and communication. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired by reason of lack of competence and imposed a 12-month suspension order.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 1 year
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that adult nurse Katherine Rachel Power's fitness to practise was impaired in a health case and imposed a 12-month suspension order, with an 18-month interim suspension to cover any appeal period. The panel accepted a consensual panel determination, and facts were proved by her admission. The hearing was held entirely in private under Rule 19, so the detailed findings are not public.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 4 months
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Sanjay Kumar Narasimhan, a ward manager at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, dishonestly allocated bank shifts a junior colleague had not worked and requested the payments for himself, and acted in an intimidating manner towards that colleague. The panel found his fitness to practise impaired on public interest grounds and imposed a four-month suspension order, with an 18-month interim suspension order pending any appeal.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 6 months
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Tina Patricia Orbell, a nurse who worked in Birmingham, publicly shared and commented on social media posts between July 2024 and February 2025 that were offensive, derogatory and discriminatory, motivated by hostility or a discriminatory attitude towards people of a different race, religion or immigration status. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired and imposed a six-month suspension order, with an 18-month interim suspension order.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 1 year
The GDC tribunal decided that dentist Paul Brown's fitness to practise was impaired by misconduct and suspended him for 12 months, with immediate effect and a review. The Professional Conduct Committee found serious clinical failings with two patients, dishonesty in a letter to patients and in NHS claims made under his performer number for another dentist's work, racially motivated conduct in requiring a colleague to anglicise her name, and offensive language and humiliating behaviour towards colleagues.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 4 months
The GDC tribunal decided that dentist Suraj Vatish's fitness to practise was impaired by misconduct and suspended him for four months, with immediate effect and a review. The Professional Conduct Committee found he failed to obtain informed consent before reopening a baby's tongue-tie and lip-tie wounds, handled the parents' complaint defensively without an apology, and acted dishonestly by making a refund conditional on removing a negative review.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDental nurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 1 year
The GDC tribunal decided that dental nurse Chloe Freya Ellis should remain suspended. At a review hearing on 17 June 2026, the Health Committee found her fitness to practise remains impaired by reason of adverse health, noting she had not engaged with the GDC or provided up-to-date evidence about her health. The committee extended her suspension for a further 12 months, with a review before it expires. The hearing was held in private.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 1 year
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that registered nurse and midwife Annette Black's fitness to practise was impaired on the grounds of misconduct and health. The panel found several charges proved and imposed a suspension order for 12 months with a review, together with an interim suspension order of 18 months. The hearing was held in private under Rule 19, so the detailed findings are not public.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 3 months
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Bernadett Kiralyne Kemenes, an adult nurse working in Scottish care homes, made repeated medication errors between October 2022 and June 2023, including giving a resident 32 units of insulin instead of the prescribed 8, and dishonestly amended the resident's medication records to conceal the error. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired and suspended her for three months, with an interim conditions of practice order until the suspension takes effect.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 6 months
William Robert Stuart Aspinall
The GDC tribunal decided that dentist William Aspinall's fitness to practise was impaired by misconduct and suspended him for six months. The Professional Conduct Committee found he engaged in inappropriate, sexually motivated conduct towards two female colleagues without their consent, including touching in the surgery, at a nightclub and in a taxi. The committee found impairment on public interest grounds only and did not impose an immediate order.
Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 1 year
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Moboladale Ojutiku's fitness to practise is impaired by reason of misconduct. It found that, over about two years, he dishonestly carried out paid private clinics during NHS contracted hours he was scheduled to spend on Trust duties, receiving payment from both. The tribunal found the dishonesty serious and his insight limited, suspended his registration for 12 months and directed a review before it ends.
Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 6 months
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Omar Aziz acted dishonestly when he answered 'no' on a January 2025 new starter form for an employer, failing to disclose a 2019 tribunal warning, past and ongoing fitness-to-practise investigations, and current restrictions on his practice. The tribunal decided his fitness to practise was impaired by reason of misconduct and suspended his registration for six months, with a review before it ends.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 6 months
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Ritah Ssali, a mental health nurse, remains impaired at a review of her 12-month conditions of practice order on 9 June 2026. The panel replaced the conditions with a six-month suspension order taking effect on 13 June 2026. The case concerned misconduct and health matters and was heard entirely in private, so the panel's detailed reasons are not public.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDental nurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 1 year
The GDC tribunal decided that dental nurse Hannah Jane Finnigan's fitness to practise was impaired by misconduct and by a conviction, and suspended her for 12 months with immediate effect and a review. The Professional Conduct Committee found she dishonestly failed to declare a police caution when applying for registration, was convicted of drug driving in 2024, did not promptly inform the GDC, and worked without indemnity insurance.
Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 4 months
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Neel Chauhan, a GP, dishonestly worked shifts for two telemedicine providers at the same time between March and July 2023 and claimed payment from both, gaining around £8,500. The tribunal decided this was serious misconduct and that his fitness to practise was impaired, but accepted his insight and remediation were exceptional. It suspended his registration for four months.
Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 1 year
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Sarah Benn's fitness to practise remains impaired by reason of misconduct and a conviction arising from her climate-change and animal-rights protests, which included breaching a High Court injunction three times and a conviction for criminal damage. At this review hearing the tribunal found she had shown no further insight or remediation and maintained that her position would not change. Concluding that compliance with the law is a fundamental professional requirement, it suspended her registration for 12 months.
Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 6 months
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Magdalene Idu Ekpiken, a GP, failed to provide good clinical care to several patients in 2024, including not adequately assessing two patients and not keeping accurate records for three, one record stating she had carried out baby examinations she had not done. The tribunal decided this amounted to serious misconduct and that her fitness to practise was impaired, noting similar failings in 2018. It suspended her registration for six months. Allegations of dishonesty relating to two other patients were found not proved.
Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 6 months
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Roshan Patel's fitness to practise was impaired by reason of misconduct and a criminal conviction. In March 2024 he stole a partially used syringe of a controlled drug at work and self-administered it, and was later convicted of theft and drug possession. The tribunal decided his insight and remediation were still developing and suspended his registration for six months, with a review before it ends.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 1 year
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Sean Fergus McMullan, an adult nurse from Mid and East Antrim, breached professional boundaries by sending sexually motivated messages to a patient on Grindr, failed to disclose a conflict of interest when triaging him, and dishonestly told his employer's investigation that the patient or someone else had sent the messages. The panel suspended him for 12 months, with an 18-month interim suspension covering the appeal period.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 1 year
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Asha Bitita, an adult nurse working at a care home in Oxfordshire, dishonestly told her employer she had called 999 after finding a resident unresponsive in March 2022, when call records showed no 999 call was made. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired on public interest grounds and suspended her for 12 months, noting the dishonesty was an isolated incident.
Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 1 year
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Mendiguren's fitness to practise remains impaired by reason of misconduct and a criminal conviction. At this review hearing, held in his absence, he provided no evidence and had not engaged with the regulator or shown any insight or remediation. His registration had been suspended in 2025 in connection with a drink-driving conviction and attending work under the influence of alcohol. The tribunal assessed the risk to the public as high and imposed a further 12-month suspension, directing another review.
Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 1 month
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Ghias's fitness to practise is impaired by reason of a criminal conviction and misconduct. In 2025 he was convicted and fined for assaulting a 14-year-old boy during a street altercation, and he failed to notify the GMC of the charge and conviction without delay. The tribunal accepted his insight and remediation were genuine, that the incident was out of character and that the risk of repetition was low, but concluded a sanction was needed to maintain public confidence. It suspended his registration for one month, with no review required.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 9 months
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that nurse Obinna Julius Onwukwe contacted one patient on social media and phoned another after taking his number from clinical records, all without clinical justification, breaching professional boundaries and patient confidentiality. Allegations of sexual touching and sexual motivation were found not proved. The panel found his fitness to practise impaired and suspended him for nine months, with an 18-month interim suspension covering any appeal period.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 4 months
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that mental health nurse Brendan James Phair dishonestly asked two junior colleagues to record patient observations that had not been carried out, and separately swore at a patient and pretended to throw a stapler at them. He admitted all the charges. The panel found his fitness to practise impaired on public interest grounds only and suspended him for four months, deciding no review of the order was needed.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 1 year
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found nurse Josephine Ruggeri's fitness to practise impaired at a substantive meeting on 21 and 22 May 2026, in a case categorised as misconduct and health. The panel found six charges proved and two not proved, and imposed a 12-month suspension order together with an 18-month interim suspension order. The published document records the outcome only; the panel's detailed reasons are not in the public record.
Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 1 year
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Prachalias's fitness to practise is impaired by reason of misconduct towards three female colleagues. It found he behaved intimidatingly towards one colleague during the Covid pandemic, sexually harassed another at a work Christmas party in a way that was sexually motivated and abused his senior position, and discriminated against a third by excluding her from a meeting because of her sex. The tribunal found his insight limited and remediation incomplete on some matters, but that erasure was not warranted. It suspended his registration for 12 months, with an immediate order and a review hearing directed.
Nursing and Midwifery CouncilNurse
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 6 months
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Mariya Holyanova, a nurse caring for a ventilated child at home in Kent, gave the child more oxygen than his care plan allowed, did not call an ambulance when his condition deteriorated, and did not supervise him on the journey to hospital. It also found she dishonestly amended the care records and an incident form to conceal the error. The panel imposed a six-month suspension order with a review.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
Suspension(suspended from practice)· 9 months
Frank Dieter Bernhard Karl Negwer
The GDC's Health Committee decided that dentist Frank Negwer's fitness to practise remains impaired by reason of his health and misconduct, after he did not engage with the regulator following an earlier hearing. At a review on 20 May 2026 the Committee extended the suspension of his registration by nine months, with a further review before the order expires. The original suspension was imposed in November 2025. Much of the hearing was held in private because it concerned his health.