David Anthony Mott

Introduction

David Anthony Mott is a nurse who was struck off the register of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), the statutory regulator for nurses in the United Kingdom, at a review hearing decided on 7 July 2026. The striking-off order took effect at the end of 19 August 2026. The case traces back to a single night shift at Ascot Nursing Home in September 2020, from which a panel found he did not administer prescribed medication to numerous residents. What makes the case unusual is its ending: by the time he was struck off — the fourth review of his suspension order — Mr Mott had already told the regulator he did not intend to return to nursing at all.

Background Information

Detail about Mott outside his regulatory file is thin. The published determination identifies him as a nurse, NMC registration number 00I1102E, whose proven charges relate to his work at Ascot Nursing Home. It does not record his age, where he trained or how long he practised; what it documents is a regulatory history — findings of misconduct from a night shift in September 2020, a substantive suspension order imposed on 20 September 2023, and a series of reviews that ended in erasure almost three years later.

Struck-off is the regulator’s most severe sanction: erasure, in the NMC’s terminology, “removes the practitioner from the register” and means the person may no longer practise the profession in the UK.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Adjudicated vs. alleged. The medication failings were found proved by an NMC panel on the civil standard and carry through the review decision. They were never criminally charged or adjudicated in court.

The conduct at the centre of the case occurred during a night shift at Ascot Nursing Home between 7 and 8 September 2020. The charges found proved at the original substantive hearing were that Mr Mott “did not administer prescribed medication to nine residents”, among them “amitriptyline, atorvastatin, zopiclone, simvastatin, eye drops, trimethoprim, omeprazole, nitrofurantoin, apixaban, donepezil, baclofen, nitrazepam, quinine, docusate, mirtazapine, cefalexin and prescribed inhalers”.

The panel also found that he did not check the syringe driver for one resident during the night and did not administer morphine 10mg subcutaneously to that resident during the night — failings that mattered for a patient reliant on continuous pain relief. A fourth charge concerned records rather than medication: he wrote over an audit completed in red ink as a stock check, in black ink. His fitness to practise was found impaired by reason of misconduct, and a substantive suspension order was imposed on 20 September 2023.

Public Reaction and Consequences

Suspension was not the end. The July 2026 hearing was the fourth review of that order, and the panel had before it an email Mr Mott sent to the NMC on 26 January 2026 stating that he had “no intention of returning to nursing or care work and no intention of seeking training in medication administration”. It found he had been given “ample time, opportunity and guidance on what a reviewing panel would wish to see” and had provided “no evidence of insight, reflection or strengthened practice”.

The panel determined there had been “no material change since the last review”, that “a risk of repetition remained”, and that a finding of continuing impairment was necessary on both public protection and public interest grounds — noting that “registrants have an obligation to engage with their regulator whether or not they intend to practise”. Its summary of the nurse before it was stark: he had shown “no insight or remorse” and “remained liable to repeat the matters found proved”.

Current Status

David Anthony Mott is struck off. The striking-off order was decided on 7 July 2026 and takes effect at the end of 19 August 2026, at which point his name comes off the NMC register and he may no longer practise as a nurse in the UK. Erasure is otherwise indefinite: it “can be reviewed after a minimum of five years, but is otherwise indefinite”. Any future return would require him to seek review after that five-year period — something his own correspondence gives little sign of, given his stated intention not to return to nursing or care work. The determination was added to the MedicWatch archive of regulator findings on 12 July 2026.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The erasure ends Mott’s career as a registered nurse. At sanction the panel worked through the lesser options and discarded each: it found it was “not possible to devise workable conditions of practice”, that “a further period of suspension would serve no useful purpose” given he had already been suspended for almost three years, and that allowing the order to lapse with impairment standing was not appropriate. That left “no alternative to a striking-off order”.

The consequences flow from his own choices as much as from the panel’s. He declined to seek training in medication administration — the very area of the original failings — and told the regulator he would not be coming back. The panel, for its part, held that engagement is not optional: a registrant’s duty to cooperate applies “whether or not they intend to practise”. The result is a permanent erasure built on a night shift in 2020, nearly three years of suspension, and a silence the panel read as the surest sign of ongoing risk.