Animol Puthanpurackal Thomas
Introduction
Animol Puthanpurackal Thomas is an adult nurse who was registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), the professional regulator for nurses in the United Kingdom, under the number 22C1767O. On 18 June 2026, at a review hearing, the NMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee decided to replace her suspension with a striking-off order — the regulator calls this erasure — which took effect at the end of 24 June 2026. The findings behind the decision went to both her clinical practice and her command of English: the original panel found misconduct including medication errors, failing to recognise a patient’s seizure, and incorrectly attempting to lift a patient, and found separately that she lacked the necessary knowledge of English to practise safely.
Background Information
The determination names no employer, hospital or trust, and records no biographical detail beyond her profession and registration number. What it does record is a cluster of charges relating to the spring of 2022 — on 11 February 2022 she was described as a pre-registered Band 4 nurse — and a separate, longer charge covering 12 November 2021 to 12 May 2022 concerning her knowledge of English. A substantive suspension order was first imposed on 24 May 2024 and extended in June 2025; the hearing of 18 June 2026 was the second review of that order. NMC review hearings exist because suspension is temporary by design: the panel must reassess whether impairment persists and whether the sanction remains the right one. In Thomas’s case, the panel noted that there had been no engagement with the NMC since March 2023.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Adjudicated vs. alleged. The findings against Animol Puthanpurackal Thomas were made by an NMC Fitness to Practise Committee on the civil standard applied in regulatory proceedings, and are attributed throughout to the panel. They are regulatory findings, not criminal convictions: nothing in the record shows that she was ever criminally charged or prosecuted, and no court has adjudicated any of this conduct.
The charges found proved at the original hearing concerned three dates in 2022. On 11 February 2022, whilst a pre-registered Band 4 nurse, she failed to recognise that a patient was having a seizure and failed to escalate the incident by pulling the alarm bell. On 1 April 2022 she failed to check a patient’s stool chart and failed to recognise when prompted whether a patient should be given their medication. On 26 April 2022 she drew up the incorrect dosage of insulin, pushed tablets into a patient’s mouth and poured water into their mouth, and incorrectly attempted to lift a patient.
A separate charge found proved covered a longer span: that between 12 November 2021 and 12 May 2022 she did not have the necessary knowledge of English to practise safely and effectively. Both strands were carried forward to the review stage, where the panel found that her fitness to practise remains impaired on both public protection and public interest grounds.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The determination records no press coverage, no public statements and no organised reaction; the published consequence is the regulatory one. At the second review, the panel found no engagement with the NMC since March 2023 and no evidence of insight, remediation, strengthened practice or improved knowledge of English. It concluded that a further suspension order would serve no useful purpose.
The panel also set out a limit on its own powers: striking-off was not available for the lack of knowledge of English component, as there had not been a continuous two-year period of suspension, but it was available for the misconduct component. On that basis it directed the Registrar to strike her name off the register, the order to take effect upon expiry of the current suspension order at the end of 24 June 2026 in accordance with Article 30(1).
Current Status
Thomas is struck off the NMC register, with the striking-off order effective at the end of 24 June 2026. Being struck off (the regulator calls this “erasure”) “removes the practitioner from the register. They are no longer permitted to practise this profession in the UK. Erasure can be reviewed after a minimum of five years, but is otherwise indefinite.” Until that date she remained subject to the suspension first imposed in May 2024 and extended in June 2025.
Impact on Their Career/Life
The erasure ends Thomas’s ability to practise as a nurse in the United Kingdom, and the register can only be revisited through a review no earlier than five years after the striking-off took effect. The determination’s account of how she reached that point is narrow but consistent: proved charges spanning a seizure that went unrecognised and unescalated, a stool chart left unchecked and an insulin dosage drawn up incorrectly, alongside a separate proved finding on her knowledge of English — followed by more than two years without a single engagement with her regulator. It was that absence of any evidence of insight, remediation, strengthened practice or improved knowledge of English which converted a suspension into permanent removal from the register.