Cali Maxamuud
Introduction
Cali Maxamuud is a registered mental health nurse from Bedfordshire who was suspended for six months by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) on 10 February 2026, at the end of a hearing that had run in stages since May 2025. The panel found proved, by his admission, that on 26 February 2019 — while working at Cygnet Hospital — he sent a colleague WhatsApp messages about a vulnerable patient, Patient A, including that she “need to be put down like unhealthy animal” and “should be allowed to die when she took Clozapine”. The panel found his fitness to practise impaired by reason of misconduct, noted that he is currently subject to a DBS barring decision, and imposed the six-month suspension with a review. An 18-month interim suspension order covers any appeal .
Background Information
The case began with wider allegations about Maxamuud’s conduct toward patients at Cygnet Hospital between 2018 and 2019, including charges alleging inappropriate comments and conduct toward Patient A of a sexual nature. Those charges — 1 to 3 — were not pursued: no evidence was offered, and nothing was found against him on them. What remained, and what the suspension rests on, is the admitted WhatsApp exchange — a colleague-facing conversation about a patient that the panel treated as abusive and degrading toward someone in his care .
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Adjudicated (regulatory), admitted. The findings below rest on the nurse’s own admissions accepted by an NMC panel — a civil regulatory process, not a criminal conviction.
Charges 4 and 5, admitted and proved: on 26 February 2019, via WhatsApp, Maxamuud made derogatory comments to a colleague about Patient A, including “she need to be put down like unhealthy animal” and “she should be allowed to die when she took Clozapine”. The quotes are the determination’s own; Clozapine is a psychiatric medication requiring blood monitoring, which makes the comment about her dying on it a reference to the specific clinical vulnerability of the patient he was caring for .
The charges that were not pursued matter to the record: the sexual-misconduct allegations toward Patient A (charges 1 to 3, and related conduct charges) attracted no evidence and were found nothing — this page records no finding of any sexual misconduct by Maxamuud, and none should be inferred .
On the proved charges, the panel’s aggravating findings were that the conduct “recklessly put a vulnerable patient receiving care at a potential risk of suffering harm”, that his insight into his actions was very limited, and that his remediation was very limited. The mitigation was thin by the panel’s own account: early admissions to charges 4 and 5, and an apology — one the panel described as focused on the words used in the message rather than on the patient the words were about .
The panel determined the proved conduct amounted to misconduct and that his fitness to practise was impaired, imposing a six-month suspension with a review — and recording, in the same determination, that Maxamuud is currently subject to a DBS barring decision, the separate statutory regime that can bar a person from working with children or vulnerable adults regardless of the nursing register’s position .
Public Reaction and Consequences
The consequences stack: a six-month NMC suspension with a review, an 18-month interim suspension across any appeal, and a live DBS barring decision noted in the determination itself. The case appears in MedicWatch’s listing of nurses suspended in 2026 .
The DBS entry is the consequential fact for his working life: a nurse can serve a suspension and return to the register, but a barring decision operates on employment with vulnerable people directly. The fetched record does not state the date or scope of the barring decision, only its existence, and this page records no more than that .
Current Status
Maxamuud is a suspended mental health nurse under a six-month order imposed on 10 February 2026, with a review scheduled before expiry, the 18-month interim order in force across the appeal window, and a DBS barring decision currently in place. The review will confront the panel’s two thinnest scores — very limited insight and very limited remediation — which are the findings that most often decide whether a suspension holds or deepens .
Impact on Their Career/Life
The proved finding is small in word-count and large in consequence: two messages, sent to one colleague about one patient, seven years before the sanction. The panel’s description of the apology — focused on the words, not the patient — is the determination’s verdict on where his mind was seven years on. With the DBS decision standing alongside the suspension, the practical barrier is no longer the register alone but the vulnerable-persons workforce the messages were about .