Andrew Paul Henson
Introduction
Andrew Paul Henson is a registered adult nurse who was suspended for six months by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) on 11 March 2026, at the end of a Fitness to Practise Committee hearing that ran from 4 November 2025. The panel found he made sexually motivated comments and engaged in harassing conduct toward two female colleagues over four years — including asking one about her favourite sex position, saying he was not getting any sex at home, removing his wedding ring and claiming he was no longer married, and, on 26 March 2021, luring her to a meeting under the pretext of mandatory training, locking the office door, massaging her shoulders, placing his hand on her leg and trying to kiss her. His fitness to practise was found impaired on public interest grounds and a six-month suspension was imposed .
Background Information
The charges concerned conduct toward two colleagues. In relation to Colleague D, the proved allegations were comments about her body, made in 2018 and 2020. In relation to Colleague A, the panel proved the sequence of sexual remarks — the question about her favourite sex position, the statement that he was not getting any sex at home, and the removed wedding ring with the claim he was no longer married — and then the 26 March 2021 incident: an invitation to a meeting under the pretext of mandatory training, a locked office door, the words “this is how you will get on to the critical care course” while touching her, a shoulder massage, a hand placed on her leg, and an attempt to kiss her .
The panel found the proved conduct unprofessional, in breach of professional boundaries, sexually motivated and amounting to harassment — though not every allegation survived: charges 3 and 6d(III) were found not proved .
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Adjudicated (regulatory). The findings below were made by an NMC panel on the balance of probabilities — a civil standard, not a criminal conviction. Two charges were not proved.
The locked-office incident is the finding that anchors the case: a senior colleague used the machinery of workplace advancement — a “mandatory training” meeting, and the promise of a critical care course — as the setting for touching and an attempted kiss, with the door locked behind it. The panel’s finding that this was sexually motivated conduct, proven to the civil standard, places the incident in the register as an abuse of position of trust and power .
The aggravating findings set the span: sexual harassment towards colleagues; abuse of position of trust and power; and misconduct over a period of four years with two colleagues. The four-year span defeated any reading of the case as a single misjudged encounter — the comments about Colleague D’s body in 2018 and 2020 bracketed the whole period in which the conduct toward Colleague A escalated from remarks to the locked office .
Mitigation was credited but bounded: he had practised professionally since the incidents, admitted some facts early, apologised to Colleague A soon after the event, taken efforts to prevent repetition, undertaken relevant and targeted training, and shown developing insight through reflective accounts and discussions with colleagues. The panel found his fitness to practise impaired on public interest grounds — not public protection — and, notably, imposed no interim order because it was satisfied the risk of repetition was low .
Public Reaction and Consequences
The outcome is a six-month suspension order. The panel’s public-interest-only impairment and no-interim-order findings mark this as a case the regulator judged serious enough to suspend but not to bar — the mark on the register being the point, alongside the message that course-gatekeeping and workplace seniority cannot be spent this way .
The case is recorded in MedicWatch’s listing of nurses suspended in 2026. No public statement from Henson or his employer appears in the fetched record beyond the determination itself .
Current Status
Henson is a suspended nurse. The six-month suspension was imposed on 11 March 2026. The determination sets no review — the suspension is fixed-term — and the panel’s own risk assessment (low risk of repetition) means his return after the term is the default, carrying the findings with it: the proved harassment, the four-year span, and the 2021 incident recorded in the regulator’s own words .
Impact on Their Career/Life
The record’s centre of gravity is the quote the panel proved: “this is how you will get on to the critical care course”, said while touching a colleague in a locked office. It converts the case from misconduct generally into a finding about how he treated access to career advancement — as something a colleague could be made to pay for in touching and endured remarks. The four-year pattern with two colleagues forecloses the isolated-lapse reading, and the not-proved charges, being few, leave the proved core intact.
The six-month term and low-risk finding give him the shortest road back of any nurse in this batch — but the register he returns to will permanently carry the finding that he harassed two colleagues and sexually motivated at least one lock of an office door .