Babasola Olayinka Babinson
Introduction
Babasola Olayinka Babinson is a former UK registered mental health nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council registration 98I4680E) who was struck off the NMC register on 21 April 2026 after a Fitness to Practise Committee found that he mismanaged the restraint of a vulnerable psychiatric patient and then concealed what had happened. Working as a Bank Mental Health Nurse for Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, he was in charge on the night shift of 30 August 2023 when colleagues restrained Patient A against a door, by the neck, and slapped her, threw liquid at her and held her head down while she lay prone; he then omitted the neck-hold, the slapping, the liquid and the head-hold from his incident report. The panel found the dishonesty deep-seated, noted the absence of insight, remorse or remediation, and determined that striking him off was the only proportionate outcome.
Background Information
The public record on Babinson’s professional standing is thin: MedicWatch’s practitioner profile records only that he qualified in the United Kingdom, that his specialty was mental health nursing, and that his most recent regulatory outcome was the April 2026 erasure. At the time of the events that ended his career he was employed as a Bank Mental Health Nurse — an agency-style, as-needed staff grade — at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, and held NMC registration number 98I4680E.
The NMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee heard the case at a substantive hearing sitting from 9 to 21 April 2026 over the events of that shift and the cover-up that followed.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Adjudicated vs. alleged. Every finding below was made by the NMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee on the balance of probabilities at a substantive hearing, and the charges and outcomes are a matter of public regulatory record. Charge 1b — that Babinson himself held Patient A by the neck and/or strangled her — was found not proved. Nothing on this page rests on an unproven allegation.
The incident unfolded on the night of 30 August 2023. The committee found proved that Babinson:
- failed to manage the restraint appropriately in that he (i) allowed colleagues to push her body into the door as she entered her bedroom; (ii) allowed colleagues to take her into a bedroom he knew, or ought to have known, was not a suitable area or space for an intervention; (iii) did not plan how the restraint would be carried out with staff and/or the Nurse in Charge; and (iv) did not wait for a response team to be present before allowing colleagues to carry out the restraint;
- allowed colleagues to hold Patient A by the neck and/or strangle her;
- slapped Patient A on one or more occasions;
- threw liquid/water at Patient A; and
- held Patient A’s head while she lay prone on her bed.
He then failed to document any of that conduct in the incident report — the committee found the omission was dishonest, an attempt to conceal his own and his colleagues’ actions towards the patient. The panel also identified as an aggravating feature a second, distinct act of dishonesty: in giving evidence he suggested to the panel that Ms Perera, a colleague, knew about the plan for the restraint when she did not.
Finding the proven charges amounted to serious misconduct, the committee held that Babinson breached sections 1, 2, 3, 8, 10 and 20 of the NMC Code. It found that Patient A was placed at unwarranted risk of harm and in fact suffered physical and emotional harm; that the misconduct breached the fundamental tenets of the nursing profession; and that his fitness to practise was currently impaired on both public protection and public interest grounds. In mitigation the panel credited only his engagement with the proceedings and some relevant training courses, while finding no evidence that the training had produced any actual remediation. Against him it weighed the abuse of a position of trust, the deliberate exposure of people receiving care to a risk of harm, the dishonesty — both in the incident report and in his evidence — the absence of insight and remediation, and the vulnerability of Patient A, who had been admitted after several serious suicide attempts and for whom this was a first psychiatric admission. The dishonesty had a concrete downstream consequence the panel highlighted: it led management to report Patient A to the police.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The determination was published as a regulator’s decision rather than a news controversy, and the public reaction on record is the panel’s own: it concluded that the dishonesty and the attitudinal concerns behind it were deep-seated and difficult to remediate, that there was no evidence of insight, remorse or remediation, and that erasure was required rather than any lesser sanction. It imposed a striking-off order and, to cover the appeal period, an 18-month interim suspension order.
The outcome now forms part of the permanent public record of NMC decisions. MedicWatch, an independent record service that aggregates published decisions of UK healthcare regulators, lists the case as erasure decided 21 April 2026 and maintains a practitioner profile recording his specialty as mental health nursing; for anyone who checks his name or PIN against the register, the erasure and the findings behind it are what appears.
Current Status
As of the decision date of 21 April 2026, Babinson stands struck off the NMC register, meaning he is no longer permitted to practise as a registered nurse in the United Kingdom. The striking-off order is accompanied by an 18-month interim suspension order covering the appeal period, and the decision sets out when the direction takes effect and the appeal provisions. The official NMC register remains the authoritative source for his current registration status. Erasure can be reviewed after a minimum of five years, but is otherwise indefinite.
Impact on Their Career/Life
The striking-off order ends Babinson’s nursing career in the UK: erasure removes him from the register entirely, and the panel’s findings — no insight, no remorse, no meaningful remediation, deep-seated dishonesty — make any early return improbable. The findings follow him beyond the register: the incident-report dishonesty already led management to report Patient A to the police, and the public determination permanently associates his name and NMC PIN 98I4680E with the restraint of a suicidal first-admission patient held by the neck, slapped and doused with liquid, and with the concealment of those acts. The published record discloses no other professional role or consequence beyond the erasure itself.