Lusina Dirorimwe
Introduction
Lusina Dirorimwe is a United Kingdom nurse who was registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council and provided home night care to a vulnerable patient — referred to in the determination as Patient A — who needed twenty-four-hour nursing care at home because of a complex condition. In May 2026 an NMC Fitness to Practise Committee found that on 31 December 2019 she did not attend her night shift, completed clinical records indicating she had provided the care that night when she had not, and dishonestly claimed hours she had not worked. The panel imposed a twelve-month suspension with an eighteen-month interim suspension covering the appeal period, after declining the NMC’s request for a striking-off order .
Background Information
The case concerned Dirorimwe’s nights caring for Patient A in the patient’s own home, and two dates in particular: 4 November 2019 and 31 December 2019. The determination records that all charges relating to the November shift — that she failed to attend, submitted an inaccurate timesheet, completed care documents for that night, and was dishonest — were found not proved. The proved case rested entirely on the New Year’s Eve shift, where the panel found the falsification of records and the dishonest claiming of hours amounted to misconduct, while her failure to attend the shift itself did not .
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Adjudicated (regulatory). The findings are the NMC panel’s conclusions on the civil standard; the dishonesty findings rested on admissions of the core facts, though dishonesty itself was denied until the panel’s assessment.
On 31 December 2019 Dirorimwe failed to attend her night shift at Patient A’s home. She then completed the Night Clinical Checklist, the Fluid Balance Chart and the Night Shift Evaluation Sheet indicating that she had provided care during that shift when she had not, and claimed hours she had not worked for that shift. Charges 4, 5a-5c and 7 were proved by way of admission, and the panel found dishonesty proved in respect of both the clinical records and the timesheet claim .
The panel found the record falsification and dishonesty amounted to misconduct and that her fitness to practise was impaired on both public-protection and public-interest grounds. Its aggravating findings were pointed: the conduct deliberately or recklessly put Patient A — particularly vulnerable, given a complex condition requiring twenty-four-hour nursing care at home — at risk of harm by deliberately falsifying the dates of documentation relating to their care, and involved deliberate breaches of the Code through a conscious decision to falsify the dates of records, with limited insight into the misconduct . Mitigating factors included early admission of some facts, evidence of safe and professional work since, positive colleague testimonials, relevant training in safeguarding, medication management, record keeping and duty of candour, and personal mitigation covering pressure to work additional shifts and a lack of employer support. The panel concluded the dishonesty arose from a specific set of circumstances rather than systematic or longstanding deception, declined the NMC’s striking-off request, and imposed a twelve-month suspension with an eighteen-month interim suspension covering the appeal period .
Public Reaction and Consequences
The consequences were the suspension order itself and the shape the panel gave it: twelve months off the register, with the striking-off order the NMC had sought expressly rejected because the dishonesty was found to be situational rather than part of a pattern. The determination records no press coverage and no public statement by Dirorimwe; the record consists of the panel’s findings and its reasoning on impairment. The aggravating finding that the falsification put a vulnerable, home-bound patient at risk of harm sat at the centre of the public-protection limb, while the mitigation — early admissions, retraining, testimonials, and reflective practice including clinical supervision — carried the panel to the suspension rather than erasure outcome .
Current Status
As determined on 13 May 2026, Lusina Dirorimwe is suspended from the NMC register for twelve months, with an eighteen-month interim suspension covering the appeal period. The charges relating to the 4 November 2019 shift form no part of the basis for the order — they were found not proved and are recorded as such. The panel’s finding that the misconduct did not flow from systematic or longstanding deception is part of the official record, as is its express rejection of the NMC’s striking-off application . Her current registration status can be checked on the official NMC register .
Impact on Their Career/Life
The suspension took Dirorimwe off the register for a year and fixed two dishonesty findings — on the care records and the timesheet — to her regulatory record. The determination’s structure matters for how the case will be read: the non-attendance alone was found not to amount to misconduct, the November allegations failed entirely, and the impairment rested on the falsified documentation and the dishonest pay claim around a single shift. The panel’s credit for retraining, testimonials and reflective practice, alongside its rejection of erasure, place the outcome at the severe-but-remediable end of the NMC’s range .