David Allister Bradley

Introduction

David Allister Bradley is a registered nurse who was struck off the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register after a Fitness to Practise Committee found his fitness to practise impaired on public protection and public interest grounds, following a common assault conviction for conduct towards a female colleague while he was on duty. He admitted the charge, and the committee ordered his erasure from the register at a substantive hearing on 8 September 2026.

The case carried a complicating history: an earlier sexual-assault conviction arising from the same conduct had been quashed on appeal and replaced with the common assault conviction, and the published record records a four-month prison sentence suspended for one year together with £500 compensation. The panel accepted a consensual determination in the case, acknowledged Mr Bradley’s apology and the professional-boundaries training he had undertaken, but found his remediation insufficient and a significant risk of repetition, and directed that he be struck off, with an 18-month interim suspension to cover the appeal period.

Background Information

Bradley was registered with the NMC under number 84I0002N. His case was heard by the NMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee at a substantive hearing that began on 8 September 2026, with the decision dated the same day. The outcome — described by the regulator as erasure — directs his removal from the register, meaning he may no longer practise as a nurse in the UK. The determination was recorded by MedicWatch, an independent record of UK healthcare regulators’ decisions, which published the case on 8 September 2026 and last updated it on 22 September 2026.

The conviction at the centre of the case was handed down on 17 December 2024 and concerned conduct towards a female colleague, identified in the determination as Person A, while Bradley was on duty. The published record does not identify his employer, workplace or location, and this page does not speculate about them. The colleague suffered psychological harm, according to the panel’s findings, and the conduct was assessed as creating a risk to the working environment.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Adjudicated vs. alleged. The common assault conviction against David Allister Bradley is a court conviction, proved to the NMC panel by an extract of conviction, and he admitted the charge — it is not a mere allegation. His earlier sexual-assault conviction was quashed on appeal and replaced with the common assault conviction, so no surviving sexual-assault conviction is asserted on this page.

The admitted charge concerned the conviction of 17 December 2024 for common assault, which followed conduct towards a female colleague while Bradley was on duty, including attempting to pull down her scrub trousers. The criminal courts had initially dealt with the conduct as a sexual assault, but that conviction was quashed on appeal and replaced with a conviction for common assault. The sentence recorded in the published determination was four months’ imprisonment, suspended for one year, together with an order to pay £500 compensation to the colleague.

The NMC panel accepted a consensual determination in the case, meaning the outcome was reached with Mr Bradley’s agreement rather than after a contested hearing on the facts. It found his fitness to practise currently impaired on both public protection and public interest grounds. In reaching that conclusion, the panel found that the colleague had suffered psychological harm and that the conduct posed a risk to the working environment.

On mitigation, the panel acknowledged that Bradley had shown some insight, including an apology to Person A, and had completed a training course in the area of professional boundaries. It nonetheless concluded that his remediation was insufficient and that there remained a significant risk of repetition. In support of that assessment, it noted that the conduct underlying the conviction had occurred only six months after the expiry of a previous final warning.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The consequences of the case played out through the regulator and the criminal courts rather than through any documented public campaign: the published record contains no social-media reaction, and none is invented here. The panel set out the mitigating factors it weighed: there was evidence of insight demonstrated by Mr Bradley, including his apology to Person A, and he had undertaken a training course in the area of professional boundaries.

Against that, it identified aggravating factors: conduct which “recklessly put people receiving care at risk of harm”; the fact that Bradley was in a senior position to Person A; the suspended custodial sentence, which ran until December 2025; and relevant previous disciplinary findings, in that the incident upon which the conviction is based took place six months after the expiry of a final warning issued to him for similar inappropriate or unprofessional behaviour towards other female colleagues. Weighing these together with the insufficient remediation and the risk of repetition, the committee directed that he be struck off the register.

Current Status

Bradley is struck off the NMC register. An 18-month interim suspension order covers the appeal period that follows the decision; if no appeal is made, the striking-off order replaces the interim order 28 days after written notification. No appeal outcome has been reported in the published determination as of its last update on 22 September 2026, which stands as the record of the panel’s findings and its sanction.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The striking-off order removes Bradley from the NMC register and ends his ability to practise as a registered nurse in the UK, subject only to the appeal window noted above. Alongside the regulatory outcome, the criminal consequences recorded in the determination — the four-month suspended prison sentence, which remained in force until December 2025, and the £500 compensation to his colleague — mark the conviction as the most serious form of finding a nurse can face. The determination also preserves what the panel acknowledged in his favour: an apology to Person A, some insight, and the professional-boundaries training he completed, while concluding that these fell short of the remediation the case demanded.

Sources

• MedicWatch, “NMC orders David Allister Bradley struck off following common-assault conviction,” 8 September 2026.source