Darin Keith Burghes
Introduction
Darin Keith Burghes is a registered nurse formerly on the register of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), PIN 88E0161S. In April 2026 the NMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee reviewed his case and found that he remained impaired by reason of the findings made against him years earlier. It replaced his existing 12-month suspension order with a striking-off order — an erasure from the register — taking effect at the end of 25 May 2026 . The underlying incident dates to 19 July 2020, when the original substantive hearing found that he shouted at a patient, shouted ‘bastard’ towards her and banged a glass bottle on the table in her room .
Background Information
Burghes was registered with the NMC as a nurse under PIN 88E0161S, qualified in the United Kingdom, with his specialty recorded as adult nursing . The published record contains little biographical detail beyond this: neither the determination page nor the practitioner profile names an employer or a workplace, and neither records any earlier regulatory finding before the 2020 incident . His profile page carried a “registration status not yet verified” notice and directed readers to the official NMC register for current registration details .
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Adjudicated vs. alleged. The findings in this section come from a Nursing and Midwifery Council fitness-to-practise panel determination, which decided the charges on the balance of probabilities. Charges found proved are regulatory findings, not criminal convictions; no charge against Darin Keith Burghes was found not proved — the published record lists every charge as proved. Panels do not convict; nothing here is a criminal record unless the determination itself states one, and this determination states none.
The charges concern events of 19 July 2020 involving a patient identified only as Patient A. The original substantive hearing found proved that, on that date, Burghes shouted at Patient A (charge 1(a)); shouted ‘bastard’ towards Patient A (charge 1(b)); and banged a glass bottle on the table in Patient A’s room (charge 1(c)). A further charge, also found proved, alleged that by his conduct in one or more of charges 1(a) to (c) he created an intimidating and/or hostile and/or degrading and/or humiliating environment for Patient A .
The sanction imposed at that hearing was a 12-month suspension order. The case returned to the regulator for a Substantive Order Review Meeting, conducted on the papers, with the hearing starting and the decision dated 14 April 2026 . The Fitness to Practise Committee took into account Burghes’s lack of engagement with the regulatory process and the absence of evidence of insight, remorse, remediation or strengthened practice in the areas of concern identified by the original panel. It determined that there remains a risk of repetition and that a finding of impairment is necessary on both public protection and public interest grounds .
On sanction, the panel concluded that no workable conditions of practice could be formulated and that a further period of suspension would not serve any useful purpose given the registrant’s sustained lack of engagement. Applying the NMC’s sanctions guidance (SAN-3) on deciding between suspension and strike-off, it determined that the only sanction that would adequately protect the public and serve the public interest was a striking-off order, replacing the existing 12-month suspension order on its expiry on 25 May 2026 . MedicWatch’s plain-English summary reads: “The NMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee found that Darin Keith Burghes, a registered nurse, remains impaired and replaced his existing 12-month suspension order with a striking-off order taking effect at the end of 25 May 2026.”
Public Reaction and Consequences
The consequence recorded is regulatory. The striking-off order directs Burghes’s removal from the NMC register, taking effect at the end of 25 May 2026 . Neither the determination page nor the practitioner profile records any press coverage, public statements or online campaigns connected with the case; both confine themselves to the regulator’s findings and links to the underlying decision . The panel reached this outcome without his participation: it expressly took into account his sustained lack of engagement with the regulatory process, deciding the review on the papers rather than through contested submissions . MedicWatch, which describes itself as an independent record service aggregating publicly published decisions of UK healthcare regulators, added the case to its record on 26 April 2026 .
Current Status
Burghes’s most recent recorded outcome is erasure — struck off the register — decided on 14 April 2026 by the NMC . The striking-off order replaced his 12-month suspension on its expiry, taking effect at the end of 25 May 2026; until that date the earlier suspension remained the operative sanction . MedicWatch’s explainer notes that the regulator directed removal from the register in this decision, that the decision explains when the direction takes effect and any appeal provisions, and that readers should check the official NMC register for the practitioner’s current registration status . His profile page carried the “not yet verified” registration notice rather than a live confirmation of his position on the register .
Impact on Their Career/Life
The striking-off order removes Burghes from the register on which his ability to practise as a nurse in the United Kingdom depended. The panel’s reasoning centred not on any new incident but on what had not happened since the original findings: no evidence of insight, remorse or remediation, and a sustained lack of engagement with the regulatory process . The determination gives no information about his subsequent employment or personal circumstances, and the profile records no later regulatory decisions . His case remains part of MedicWatch’s browsable record of nurse erasures, listed under the outcome “struck off the register” with the decision date of 14 April 2026 .