Nana Kwasi Asabre
Introduction
Nana Kwasi Asabre is a former nursing associate who was struck off the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s register after completing ten shifts as a registered nurse at a mental health hospital despite not holding the qualification the role required. Asabre got the shifts through an agency, working as a registered nurse at Prospect Park Hospital in Reading in June and July 2022, and on one shift was found to have given medication to a patient without a nurse present and then left a medication cabinet unlocked. An NMC panel found he had been dishonest β he knew he was not qualified to complete the shifts “but did so anyway” β and he was removed from the register, with the regulator warning his conduct “could have put patients at significant risk of harm.” The case was reported by the BBC in November 2026.
Background Information
Asabre’s clinical background was real but junior: he was qualified to work as a nursing associate, a support role below registered nurse, and worked for Oxford Health NHS Trust as a healthcare assistant between September 2021 and July 2022. In June 2022, while that employment was ending, he obtained work through the Your World healthcare agency to cover shifts at Prospect Park Hospital in Reading as a registered nurse β a role he was not licensed to hold. Over June and July 2022 he completed ten such shifts. On 24 July 2022, during one of those shifts, he gave medication to a patient without a nurse being present and then left the medication cabinet unlocked, the conduct the NMC treated alongside the unqualified practice itself. The gap between what he was registered to do and what he was hired to do is the case’s foundation: the shifts were not paperwork errors but ten occasions of practice above his qualification.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Struck off by the nursing regulator. An NMC panel found Asabre dishonest for knowingly working unqualified shifts and removed him from the register, citing the risk his unsupervised practice and medication handling posed to patients.
The NMC’s fitness-to-practise case against Asabre centred on the ten unqualified shifts and the medication-handling incident of 24 July 2022. The regulator found he had been dishonest because he knew he was not qualified to complete the shifts “but did so anyway,” and said he had “sought to deflect blame onto the agency” for booking him onto shifts. The NMC concluded his conduct “could have put patients at significant risk of harm” β the assessment that carried the case to the striking-off order. Asabre, giving his account to the panel, said he “deeply regretted” his actions and “the concern they have caused to the profession [and] the public,” and told the panel he had worked the shifts “under the belief that the roles assigned” by the Your World agency “were appropriate to my level of experience and training.” The regulator’s finding of dishonesty rejected that framing: on the NMC’s account, he knew the difference between a nursing associate’s scope and a registered nurse’s, and worked above it regardless.
The striking-off order removed Asabre from the register entirely. The BBC’s report noted that the agency was contacted for comment; no response was reported.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The case’s public footprint is the regulator’s own published findings, reported by the BBC under a headline that named the core fact β a man “struck off for doing nursing shifts” he was unqualified to do. The reaction embedded in the record is institutional: the NMC’s conclusions that he was dishonest, that he deflected blame onto the agency that booked him, and that patients were exposed to significant risk. The agency at the centre of the booking chain, Your World, was contacted for comment, and the report did not record one. For the register’s purposes the consequence is total β Asabre’s name has been removed, and under the NMC’s rules a nurse struck off by a fitness-to-practise panel can only seek restoration years later and must satisfy a restoration panel that is bound by the original panel’s findings.
Current Status
Asabre has been removed from the NMC’s register and cannot work as a registered nurse in the UK. The striking-off order resolves the regulatory case arising from the June and July 2022 shifts at Prospect Park Hospital; no criminal proceedings connected to the unqualified practice have been reported. His account to the panel β regret, and a claimed belief that the agency’s assignments matched his training β stands rejected by the dishonesty finding, and the regulator’s warning that his conduct “could have put patients at significant risk of harm” is now the standing public record of the case.
Impact on Their Career/Life
Asabre’s clinical career is ended at its start: a man who moved from healthcare assistant to qualified nursing associate in 2021-22 chose to work ten shifts above his registration, and the striking-off order forecloses the registered-nurse career those qualifications pointed toward. Under the NMC’s framework, restoration after a striking-off order is possible only after five years, and the restoring panel must apply the original findings β including dishonesty, the finding regulators treat as the gravest. The case’s wider impact sits with the patients of Prospect Park Hospital’s mental health wards: the regulator’s record states that a patient received medication with no nurse present and that a medication cabinet was left unlocked on a shift staffed by an unqualified worker, and the NMC’s judgment that this “could have put patients at significant risk of harm” is the incident’s lasting significance.
Sources
- “BBC News (via AOL): Unqualified man struck off for doing nursing shifts” source