Bjork Sabino

Introduction

Bjork Sabino is a registered midwife and adult nurse whose name stood on the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register under number 00C2160E, registered in Camden. On 9 February 2026, at a substantive order review hearing held virtually, an NMC Fitness to Practise Committee panel found her fitness to practise remained impaired and imposed a striking-off order, to take effect on 18 March 2026 when her existing twelve-month suspension expired. The case that ended her registration began with charges covering the period from 25 December 2020 to February 2023: a sustained failure to demonstrate the standards required to practise without supervision, falsifying patient observations by copying records from earlier shifts, and dishonesty in maintaining the false records. Sabino did not attend the hearing; the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) made written representations on her behalf and told the panel she now works as a prison officer and does not intend to return to nursing.

Background Information

Sabino registered as an adult nurse in July 2004 and as a midwife on 2 October 2007. The published reasons record her as practising as a Band 5 nurse in the period the charges cover, with the panel reviewing her case from Camden. The charges found proved — and in part admitted — concerned her work as a Band 5 nurse between 25 December 2020 and February 2023: prioritising clinical tasks by risk and patient safety, identifying and escalating deteriorating patients, medications practice, record keeping, working cooperatively with colleagues, and communication with colleagues and patients. The published record this page draws on does not name her employing trust, and this page does not guess at it.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Adjudicated vs. alleged. The findings below come from an NMC Fitness to Practise Committee determination, which decides charges on the balance of probabilities. They are regulatory findings, not criminal convictions.

The proved charges, including those Sabino admitted, were fourfold. Charge 1 found that between 25 December 2020 and February 2023 she failed to demonstrate the standards of knowledge, skill and judgement required to practise without supervision as a Band 5 nurse across six stated areas, from escalating deteriorating patients to medications practice and record keeping. Charge 2 found she documented observations on patients’ records by using previously recorded observations from earlier shifts on one or more occasions, including on 3 January 2022, 25 January 2022 and 17 February 2022. Charge 3 found she did not amend the patient records after observations and assessments had taken place. Charge 4 found that her conduct at charges 2 and 3 was dishonest: she knew she was entering observations from a previous shift, knew she had not amended them, and intended to create the misleading impression that the recorded observations were the correct ones.

The original panel found her reflection “difficult to follow at times” and noted she appeared to minimise responsibility. In her written reflection she attributed the circumstances to a patient whose insulin sliding scale needed attention: “I was pressurised into ensuring that the sliding scale was administering the insulin that the patient was required, and in order to do so, at the time my priority was to take the patient back to safety he needed to have the sliding scale working effectively.” She also blamed ward conditions and equipment. The original panel found the training she undertook was limited in scope and relevance, and imposed a twelve-month suspension order — the order that returned for review in February 2026.

The review panel found nothing had changed. Since the suspension was imposed, Sabino had provided no evidence of meaningful remediation, no developed insight into her misconduct, lack of competence and dishonesty, no reflective piece, no relevant training or testimonials. Through the RCN she stated she did not intend to return to nursing and now works as a prison officer. The panel concluded that a further suspension “would not serve any useful purpose, would merely prolong the regulatory process without realistic prospect of remediation”, and that a striking-off order was the only sufficient and proportionate sanction: the “very serious and repeated unsafe practice, combined with dishonesty” raised fundamental concerns of trustworthiness, and public confidence would be undermined if a nurse who had taken no remedial steps over a twelve-month suspension were permitted to remain on the register. The RCN’s submission that “nothing has happened which might amplify or aggravate the past conduct” was considered and did not prevail.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The published record contains no press coverage of the hearing and no public statements — none from Sabino beyond her written representations relayed through the RCN, and none from patients, colleagues or campaign groups. The concrete consequence is the striking-off order itself, which removes Sabino from both parts of the register on which she stood — midwife and nurse — when it took effect on 18 March 2026. MedicWatch, which maintains the practitioner-facing record of the decision, aggregates regulator outcomes and states it does not editorialise the regulator’s findings.

Current Status

Sabino is struck off the NMC register. The striking-off order was imposed on 9 February 2026 and took effect on 18 March 2026, on the expiry of the suspension order it replaced, in accordance with Article 30(1) of the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001. Her MedicWatch profile records her as erased from the register at last register check. The published record shows no appeal and no application for restoration. She remains, per the RCN’s statement to the panel, working as a prison officer — an occupation outside NMC regulation.

Impact on Their Career/Life

Striking off ends Sabino’s UK nursing and midwifery careers permanently unless a future restoration application succeeds, and the panel’s reasoning — no meaningful remediation, no developed insight, unresolved dishonesty, and no intention to return — records why it considered that prospect unrealistic. Her stated move out of healthcare means the practical effect on her working life is the formal one: the register no longer carries her name. The published record contains no information about her circumstances beyond what is stated above, and nothing on this page should be read as going beyond it.

Sources

• *Nursing and Midwifery Council, Fitness to Practise Committee, Substantive Order Review Hearing reasons, Bjork Sabino, 9 February 2026 (PDF) — source
• *MedicWatch, “Bjork Sabino — Struck off the register · 9 February 2026” — source
• *MedicWatch, “Bjork Sabino | Nursing and Midwifery Council 00C2160E” — source