Andre Miguel Maia Seica Neves
Introduction
Andre Miguel Maia Seica Neves is a nurse who was registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), the statutory regulator of nursing in the United Kingdom (registration number 14G0103C), and who worked as a senior staff nurse in Bristol. On 20 May 2026, a panel of the NMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee struck him off the register after finding that he 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 case is unusual in that the misconduct involved colleagues rather than patients: the panel found that Neves used his position of trust as a senior nurse and mentor to seek sexual gratification in the course of teaching, by having junior colleagues and a student take part in procedures that standard training practice does not condone. It concluded that this amounted to a course of serious sexual misconduct and made a striking-off order, with an 18-month interim suspension to cover any appeal.
Background Information
The NMC maintains the register of nurses entitled to practise in the United Kingdom. When concerns about a nurse’s fitness to practise are referred to the regulator, a panel hears the evidence and makes findings on the balance of probabilities. The sanctions available range from caution orders through conditions of practice and suspension to striking off, also called erasure, which removes the nurse’s entry from the register entirely.
Neves was an adult nurse whose case was determined at a substantive hearing that began on 11 May 2026 and ended on 20 May 2026. The determination describes him as a senior staff nurse in Bristol and records that he was said to be a knowledgeable nurse who was keen to teach and impart knowledge to colleagues — the position of trust that the panel found he had abused.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Adjudicated vs. alleged. The findings described here were made on the balance of probabilities by a Nursing and Midwifery Council panel — the civil standard applied by regulatory tribunals — and are not criminal convictions; no court conviction of Andre Miguel Maia Seica Neves is recorded in this decision. The charges found proved are adjudicated findings; a further charge was found not proved, as noted below.
The charges concerned a series of episodes presented as training, involving junior colleagues anonymised in the determination as Colleague A, Colleague B and Colleague C. The panel found proved that, without clinical justification and/or contrary to standard training practice, Neves invited Colleague C to listen to his lungs with a stethoscope. He performed an ECG on Colleague A and advised her to lift up her tunic and/or bra, and asked her whether she had “work done” to her breasts.
The charges relating to Colleague A went further. The panel found proved that Neves conducted a bladder scan on her, asked whether he could go lower to find her cervix, insisted that she perform a bladder scan on him, and asked whether she wanted to practise catheterisation on him. He also offered to meet her outside of work. The panel found proved that he conducted an ECG on Colleague B with her top unzipped, and asked Colleague B to come to his house to practise venepuncture.
The panel found proved the charge that these actions were sexually motivated in that he sought sexual gratification from them. A further charge, that his actions were in pursuit of a future sexual relationship, was found not proved.
Public Reaction and Consequences
In its findings, the panel concluded that Neves had used his position of trust as a senior nurse and mentor to seek sexual gratification in the course of teaching, by having junior colleagues and a student take part in procedures contrary to standard training practice. It characterised his behaviour as a course of serious sexual misconduct and a serious breach of professional boundaries over a period of time with three different junior colleagues, indicative of a deep-seated attitudinal issue.
The panel identified aggravating factors: his abuse of his position of trust as a senior nurse and mentor; the fact that the misconduct formed a pattern carried out over a period of time; and that his conduct related to three different junior nurses, one of them a student. In mitigation, it took account that he was said to be a knowledgeable nurse who was keen to teach, that he made some limited admissions of the facts and apologised at an early stage, and that it considered his sexual misconduct to be at the lower end of the spectrum.
With no evidence of training or strengthened practice before it, and his insight undeveloped, the panel found a serious risk of repetition. It concluded that his fitness to practise was impaired on both public protection and public interest grounds, and made a striking-off order, together with an 18-month interim suspension order to cover any appeal period.
Current Status
As of the decision date of 20 May 2026, Andre Miguel Maia Seica Neves has been struck off the NMC register: the regulator directed his removal from the register, which means he may no longer practise as a registered nurse in the United Kingdom. The decision explains when the direction takes effect and any appeal provisions, and the official NMC register remains the authoritative source for his current registration status.
MedicWatch’s practitioner profile records the erasure as his most recent regulatory outcome, lists his specialty as an adult nurse, and records that he was erased from the register at its last register check, verified against the NMC register on 16 July 2026.
Impact on Their Career/Life
Erasure from the register ends a nurse’s ability to work in registered nursing roles in the UK, where employers and agencies check the NMC register before engaging registered staff. For Neves, the removal followed findings that concerned not his clinical competence but the sexual motivation behind conduct presented as training: the panel found he had turned teaching interactions with junior colleagues into a means of seeking sexual gratification.
The findings form a permanent regulatory record against which any future application for restoration to the register would be measured. Beyond the striking-off order and the 18-month interim suspension covering any appeal, the published determination records no other consequences.