Mary Folake Olanrewaju
Introduction
Mary Folake Olanrewaju was a registered adult nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), holding registration number 91H0145O, who had qualified in 1991. In a decision dated 2 April 2026, the NMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee found at a substantive order review hearing that she remained impaired and ordered her erasure from the register — commonly described as being struck off . She had been suspended in April 2025 after a panel found multiple clinical errors during her work as a locum nurse practitioner in 2019 and a subsequent failure to comply with the undertakings she had accepted with the regulator. The striking-off order takes effect on 7 May 2026 .
Background Information
Olanrewaju was registered with the NMC as a nurse under PIN 91H0145O, and her profile page records 1991 as her year of qualification . During 2019 she worked as a locum Nurse Practitioner at Toddington Medical Centre, the setting for the clinical events later put before the regulator . Beyond her name, registration number, qualification year, 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 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; Mary Folake Olanrewaju had no charges found not proved — the panel found all charges proved, first at the original substantive hearing on 8 April 2025. Panels do not convict; nothing here is a criminal record unless the determination itself states one.
The charges concerned her work as a locum Nurse Practitioner at Toddington Medical Centre during 2019. She was charged with multiple clinical errors, including incorrectly advising a patient about an MMR vaccine, wrongly attempting to inject Denosumab into a patient’s stomach, and administering Zoladex into the anterior thigh instead of the abdomen . Further charged errors were administering baby immunisations early, applying compression stockings when clinically inappropriate, applying dressings without protective gloves, and taking inadequate smear tests . She was further charged with failing to comply with six undertakings she had accepted with the NMC, covering medication-administration reports, evidence of completing a safe medication course, providing a Personal Development Plan, monthly progress reports, and a reflective profile .
All charges were proved at the original substantive hearing on 8 April 2025, which imposed a six-month suspension . The misconduct found included the 2019 clinical errors and a subsequent failure to comply with the undertakings she had agreed with the regulator . The order was reviewed on 3 September 2025 and extended. At the second review on 2 April 2026, the panel noted her continued absence and lack of engagement with the NMC, and concluded that the only appropriate sanction was a striking-off order .
MedicWatch’s plain-English summary of the determination reads: “The NMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee found at a substantive order review hearing on 2 April 2026 that Mrs Mary Folake Olanrewaju, a registered adult nurse, remained impaired and ordered her erasure from the register.” As aggravating factors, the panel cited that the conduct involved multiple clinical errors affecting several patients, including potential medication administration errors and inadequate smear tests; that she subsequently failed to comply with the structured undertakings she had agreed with the NMC; and that she did not engage with the proceedings .
Public Reaction and Consequences
The immediate consequences were regulatory. The substantive hearing on 8 April 2025 produced a six-month suspension; the review of 3 September 2025 extended that order; and the review of 2 April 2026 replaced the suspension with a striking-off order taking effect on 7 May 2026 . The final sanction turned on her non-engagement: the panel noted her continued absence and concluded that erasure was the only appropriate option . 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 25 April 2026 .
Current Status
Olanrewaju’s most recent recorded outcome is erasure — struck off the register — decided on 2 April 2026 by the NMC at a review hearing that began on the same date as the decision . The striking-off order takes effect on 7 May 2026 . MedicWatch’s explainer notes that the regulator directed removal from the register in this decision, that the decision explains 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 “Registration status not yet verified” notice rather than a live confirmation of her position on the register .
Impact on Their Career/Life
The erasure removes Olanrewaju from the register on which her status as a registered nurse depended, ending a nursing career that began with qualification in 1991 . The case’s later stages rested not on the 2019 clinical errors themselves but on her failure to comply with the structured undertakings she had accepted as a remedial path, and on her non-engagement with the regulator thereafter . 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 2 April 2026 .