Maria Charito Estrella Poblete
Introduction
Maria Charito Estrella Poblete was a registered nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), registration number 03G0273O, working as a Deputy Sister at a nursing home when a fitness-to-practise panel found she had failed to properly review and escalate a vulnerable resident’s pressure wounds. A substantive panel imposed a 12-month conditions of practice order on 2 April 2025; at a review hearing on 8 April 2026, a further panel found she had not engaged with the regulator and directed her erasure — commonly described as being struck off the register — with the order taking effect on 6 May 2026 .
Background Information
Poblete was registered with the NMC as a nurse under PIN 03G0273O, with adult nursing listed as her specialty . At the material time she was employed as Deputy Sister at a nursing home, the setting for the events later put before the regulator . Beyond her name, registration number, role and the outcome of her case, the public pages published by MedicWatch contain little biographical detail: they record no date of birth, no training history and no earlier regulatory findings . Her 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; Maria Charito Estrella Poblete was found NOT proved on charge 4, the allegation that she did not ensure that the MUST score was completed between 19 June 2022 and 1 October 2022. Panels do not convict; nothing here is a criminal record unless the determination itself states one.
The charges concerned Resident A, a vulnerable resident of the nursing home, and a sacral wound documented in May 2022. While working as Deputy Sister, Poblete was charged with not conducting appropriate reviews or ensuring that ongoing assessments were undertaken following that documentation; with not ensuring that, between 18 May 2022 and 1 October 2022, the wound assessment and care plan paperwork was updated; with not ensuring that a Braden score was completed in July, August or September 2022; with not ensuring that the MUST score was completed between 19 June 2022 and 1 October 2022; and, prior to 2 October 2022, with not appropriately escalating or seeking advice regarding Resident A’s pressure ulcers .
The original substantive panel, sitting on 2 April 2025, found charges 1, 2, 3 and 5 proved and charge 4 not proved . MedicWatch’s plain-English summary records that the resident “developed serious sacral wounds” and that Poblete “did not properly review or assess a vulnerable resident’s pressure wounds for several months in 2022, did not update care plans or complete required risk-score forms, and did not escalate the wounds to a senior nurse or specialist” . On the proved findings, the panel concluded that her fitness to practise was impaired by reason of misconduct, and imposed a 12-month conditions of practice order .
Public Reaction and Consequences
The immediate consequence was regulatory. At the April 2026 review, the panel found that Poblete “had not engaged with the NMC for over a year” and had provided no evidence of compliance with the conditions, no evidence of remediation, no reflective statement and no testimonials . It determined that her fitness to practise remained impaired on grounds of both public protection and public interest, and that further conditions or suspension would serve no useful purpose . 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 . 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
Poblete’s most recent recorded outcome is erasure — struck off the register — decided on 8 April 2026 by the NMC at a review hearing that began the same day . The striking-off direction takes effect on the expiry of the current conditions of practice order, on 6 May 2026 . MedicWatch’s explainer notes that the regulator directed removal from the register in this decision, that the decision sets out 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 . Her profile page carried the “not yet verified” registration notice rather than a live confirmation of her position on the register .
Impact on Their Career/Life
The erasure removed Poblete from the register on which her status as a registered nurse depended, and the review panel’s reasoning centred on her non-engagement: more than a year without contact with the NMC, and no evidence of compliance, remediation, reflection or testimonials . The determination page gives no information about her subsequent employment or personal circumstances, and the profile page records no later regulatory decisions . Her case remains part of MedicWatch’s browsable record of nurse erasures, listed under the outcome “struck off the register” with the decision date of 8 April 2026 .