Benjamin Terkper
Introduction
Benjamin Terkper is a United Kingdom nurse who was registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council. In September 2026 an NMC Fitness to Practise Committee imposed a twelve-month suspension on him after finding misconduct including sexual harassment of a colleague — referred to as Colleague A — during 2024. The panel found he placed his hands around her neck and shook her, made inappropriate personal and sexual comments, and engaged in unwanted contact, and it proved sexual gratification as the motivation for specified sexual questions. Several other allegations were not proved. The panel accepted significant insight and meaningful remediation but found his learning had not yet been sufficiently tested in practice, rejected striking off as disproportionate, and required a review before the suspension ends .
Background Information
The case concerned Terkper’s conduct toward a colleague during 2024. The panel’s findings drew a deliberate line through the allegations: proved were the hands-around-the-neck incident, the inappropriate personal and sexual comments, unwanted contact, and sexual gratification as the motivation for specified sexual questions; not proved were the alleged grabbing of her waist and shoulders, lower-stomach contact, and following her, and no intention to pursue a future sexual relationship was found. A single social invitation was admitted but found to be neither harassment nor misconduct .
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Adjudicated (regulatory). The findings are the NMC panel’s conclusions on the civil standard; harassment was established by its effect on the colleague, not by a proved intention to cause it, and several allegations were not proved.
The panel found the proved conduct amounted to misconduct including sexual harassment. The physical core was the incident in which Terkper placed his hands around Colleague A’s neck and shook her; around it sat inappropriate personal and sexual comments and unwanted contact, with sexual gratification proved as the motivation for the specified sexual questions. The allegations that failed — the waist and shoulder grabbing, the lower-stomach contact, the following, and the alleged intention to pursue a future sexual relationship — were found not proved and are recorded as such .
On impairment, the panel found grounds on both public protection and public interest. It found significant insight, meaningful remediation and no deep-seated attitudinal issue; no patient had been directly harmed or put at risk, but it found the working environment, and consequently care, could be affected. Because his learning had not yet been sufficiently tested in practice, repetition could not be ruled out. In mitigation the panel credited his apology to Colleague A and expression of significant remorse, early admissions to some charges, targeted training and reflection, insight evidenced through his reflective statement and oral evidence, and his action plan to prevent similar behaviour. In aggravation it cited the failure to work collaboratively with colleagues with the potential to affect patient care, the charges amounting to sexual misconduct including sexual harassment, and the impact of his conduct on Colleague A. The panel rejected striking off as disproportionate and imposed a twelve-month suspension with a review, with an eighteen-month interim suspension covering the appeal period .
Public Reaction and Consequences
The consequences were the twelve-month suspension with a review, and the interim order — which, absent an appeal, is replaced by the substantive order twenty-eight days after written notification. The determination records no press coverage and no public statement by Terkper; the official record consists of the panel’s proved and not-proved lists, its effect-based harassment finding, and its assessment of his insight and remediation. The finding that harassment was established by its effect rather than by proved intention is part of the formal reasoning, as is the conclusion that his remediation, while meaningful, remains untested in practice .
Current Status
As determined on 10 September 2026, Benjamin Terkper is suspended from the NMC register for twelve months, with a review required before the suspension ends and an eighteen-month interim suspension covering the appeal period. The allegations found not proved — the waist and shoulder grabbing, the lower-stomach contact, the following, and the alleged intention to pursue a sexual relationship — form no part of the basis for the order. The admitted social invitation was found not to be harassment or misconduct. The review will test whether the remediation the panel credited has held in practice . His current registration status can be checked on the official NMC register .
Impact on Their Career/Life
The suspension places a sexual-harassment finding — anchored to the hands-around-the-neck incident and the proved sexual comments — on Terkper’s regulatory record, while preserving the not-proved allegations as part of the official outcome. The panel’s structure matters: significant insight and meaningful remediation kept erasure off the table, but the untested-in-practice finding and the inability to rule out repetition are what require the review. The case’s regulatory consequence is a year off the register and a colleague-conduct record that will follow his return .