Mohamad Kanu
Introduction
Mohamad Kanu is a former nurse whose name was removed from the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register after a review hearing sat on 13 July 2026. The regulator’s Fitness to Practise Committee decided at that hearing to replace the suspension order it had imposed on him a year earlier with a striking-off order — the most severe sanction available. The decision rested on charges found proved at his 2025 substantive hearing: a medication error in which he gave a patient the wrong drug, a failure to tell the patient about the mistake for approximately two to three hours and to complete an incident report, a missing risk assessment before a patient went on leave, and an approach to a patient for their contact number and the offer of a meeting after discharge. The striking-off order took effect at the end of 19 August 2026 .
Background Information
Kanu was a registered nurse on the NMC register under personal identification number 07A0015C. The events that carried him before the regulator occurred while he was employed by Harbour Suite between 8 May 2023 and 20 June 2023, a period of roughly six weeks. Within that window, the panel found, he made a medication error, failed to disclose it, bypassed a risk assessment, and crossed a professional boundary with a patient — a cluster of failings spanning clinical practice, candour and professional boundaries rather than a single lapse.
What followed stretched over three years. The substantive hearing concluded in July 2025 with a suspension order; two review hearings later, the second of which sat on 13 July 2026, the regulator concluded that the suspension had achieved nothing and removed him from the register altogether .
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Adjudicated (regulatory). The findings in this section were made by a Nursing and Midwifery Council panel on the balance of probabilities — a civil standard, not a criminal conviction. The charges were found proved at his 2025 substantive hearing; the 2026 review found his fitness to practise remained impaired.
The charges found proved at the original hearing were that, while employed by Harbour Suite between 8 May 2023 and 20 June 2023, he gave Chlordiazepoxide to a patient instead of Paliperidone. Chlordiazepoxide is a drug used in the treatment of alcohol dependence; Paliperidone is an antipsychotic. Whatever the mechanism of the swap, the patient received a medication that had not been prescribed for them.
The second charge concerned what happened in the hours afterwards. He did not inform the patient that he had administered incorrect medication for approximately 2-3 hours, and he did not complete an incident report — conduct the NMC characterised as demonstrating a lack of candour. The error went unacknowledged to the person most affected by it, and unrecorded in the system designed to catch exactly these mistakes.
The third charge related to leave. He did not carry out a risk assessment, or establish whether one had been carried out, before allowing a patient to go on leave. Risk assessment before leave is a core safety control in inpatient settings; the panel found he neither performed one nor checked that anyone else had.
The final charge was a breach of professional boundaries: he asked Patient A for their contact number and offered to meet them after discharge. Taken together, the four proved charges described a pattern spanning the medication error itself, concealment of that error, a skipped safety process, and an improper personal approach to a patient .
Public Reaction and Consequences
The immediate consequence was the suspension order originally imposed on 18 July 2025. But the case returned to the panel twice more, and by the second review on 13 July 2026 the picture had hardened rather than improved. The panel found his fitness to practise remained impaired on both public protection and public interest grounds.
The reasoning turned on what had not happened in the intervening year. He had not engaged with the NMC since the substantive hearing; he had provided no evidence of remediation, no training, and nothing to show strengthened practice. Against that silence, the panel determined he “remains liable to repeat matters of the kind found proved” . Concluding that “no lesser sanction would adequately protect the public”, it replaced the suspension order with a striking-off order, taking effect upon the expiry of the current order at the end of 19 August 2026 .
The escalation — from suspension to erasure at a hearing he apparently did not attend — is itself part of the public record. Non-engagement gave the panel nothing to weigh against the proved charges, and each review had only one direction in which to move.
Current Status
Mohamad Kanu has been struck off the NMC register, the regulator’s term being erasure. His name has been removed from the register and he is no longer permitted to practise as a nurse in the UK. The striking-off order took effect at the end of 19 August 2026, upon expiry of the suspension that preceded it. Erasure can be reviewed after a minimum of five years, but is otherwise indefinite — meaning the earliest he could ask the regulator to reconsider is 2031, and there is no guarantee of restoration even then .
Impact on Their Career/Life
The striking-off order ended Kanu’s nursing career in the UK. The registration on which his professional practice rested is gone, and with it the legal ability to work in the profession for which he trained and was licensed under PIN 07A0015C.
The terms of the removal make any return unusually remote. Restoration applications after erasure are assessed against the original findings and everything that has happened since; in his case the record contains a wrong-medication administration, a multi-hour failure of candour, a bypassed risk assessment, a boundary breach with a patient, and then years of non-engagement with the regulator that sanctioned him. With no remediation on file and a panel finding him liable to repeat the same kind of conduct, the burden he would need to displace at any future review is a heavy one.