Ibukunola Oyekunle Omoniyi Fisher
Introduction
Ibukunola Oyekunle Omoniyi Fisher is a former UK adult nurse, previously registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) under registration number 19F1377E, who worked for Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust. On 28 May 2026, the NMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee struck her off the nursing register after finding that she produced three falsified sick notes and worked agency nursing shifts for Interact Medical Ltd while receiving sick pay from the Trust that she knew she was not entitled to. Her case is recorded in the publicly published NMC determination reproduced by MedicWatch, an independent record of UK healthcare regulators’ decisions.
Background Information
Fisher was an adult nurse based in Northampton and employed by Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust. The events that brought her before the regulator took place between December 2021 and March 2022, a period in which she was in receipt of sick pay from the Trust. During that same period, according to the determination, she also worked shifts as a nurse through the agency Interact Medical Ltd.
The NMC brought the matter to a substantive hearing of its Fitness to Practise Committee, which began on 6 October 2025 and ended on 28 May 2026, the date of the committee’s decision. The hearing considered four charges relating to dishonesty arising from the sick notes and the agency work.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Adjudicated vs. alleged. The findings described below were made on the civil standard by the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s Fitness to Practise Committee, a regulatory panel rather than a criminal court. Miss Fisher was never criminally charged or criminally adjudicated in respect of these matters, and nothing here is a criminal conviction. No charges were found not proved: the committee found all four charges proved.
The charges concerned three sick notes that the committee found Miss Fisher produced while working for Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust: a falsified sick note dated 19 January 2022, a falsified sick note dated 21 March 2022, and a falsified sick note purporting to cover the period 22 December 2021 to 19 January 2022. The charges alleged these actions were dishonest in that she knew the sick notes provided were false.
The fourth charge alleged that on one or more scheduled dates she worked shifts as a nurse for the agency Interact Medical Ltd while in receipt of sick pay from the Trust, and that this was dishonest in that she represented to the Trust that she was entitled to receive sick pay when she knew she was not.
The panel rejected Miss Fisher’s account as “wholly implausible and untrue” and found she was a knowing participant in the production and submission to the Trust of three false sick notes. It found she worked agency shifts on twelve dates while in receipt of sick pay, and that she made the implicit representations in the false sick notes knowingly, intending to be paid sick pay she was not entitled to. The panel found that each charge proved amounted to serious misconduct involving serious and sustained dishonesty evidencing a “deep-seated attitudinal issue”, with no evidence of insight, remorse or remediation, and found her fitness to practise impaired on public interest grounds. It made a striking-off order, with an 18-month interim suspension order to cover any appeal period.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The determination is a public document, and the outcome has been published and indexed by MedicWatch, which lists Fisher among nurses struck off the register and aggregates publicly published decisions of UK healthcare regulators without editorialising the regulator’s findings. The immediate professional consequence was the loss of her registration: being struck off — what the regulator calls erasure — removes a practitioner from the NMC register, and they are no longer permitted to practise that profession in the UK.
In reaching its outcome, the panel weighed mitigating factors — difficult personal circumstances and health, the details of which were considered in private — against aggravating factors it identified: abuse of a position of trust; lack of insight into failings; lack of remorse for dishonest misconduct; misconduct which was for financial gain; and a pattern of misconduct over a period of time.
Current Status
As of the decision date of 28 May 2026, Fisher is struck off the NMC register and is not permitted to practise as a nurse in the UK. An 18-month interim suspension order covers any appeal period. Erasure can be reviewed after a minimum of five years, but is otherwise indefinite.
Impact on Their Career/Life
The striking-off order ends Fisher’s registered nursing career in the UK for the foreseeable future: she cannot lawfully work as a registered nurse, and any return to the register would require a successful review of the erasure, which cannot occur until at least five years have elapsed. The panel’s findings of serious and sustained dishonesty, its conclusion that the misconduct evidenced a deep-seated attitudinal issue, and its observation that there was no evidence of insight, remorse or remediation are recorded against her name in the public determination. The mitigation of difficult personal circumstances and health was considered by the panel but did not prevent the most severe sanction available to it.
Sources
- MedicWatch, “Ibukunola Oyekunle Omoniyi Fisher — Struck off the register · 28 May 2026,” 28 May 2026.source