Nuriat Nantume Bukenya
Introduction
Nuriat Nantume Bukenya is a registered adult nurse from London who was suspended for six months by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) on 19 March 2026 — an order imposed with no review hearing. The case arose from a criminal conviction: in October 2022 she was convicted at Wood Green Crown Court of fraud by false representation, after sending an email from her NHS account — while working as a nursing manager at North Middlesex University Hospital — falsely stating that a friend’s brother had attended a hospital appointment. That email was used as a false alibi in a serious criminal investigation, initially handled as a conspiracy to murder inquiry. The regulatory case was concluded by a Consensual Panel Determination with full admissions .
Background Information
The underlying facts were agreed rather than contested. On 21 January 2021, Bukenya sent the email from her NHS account in her nursing-manager role, falsely stating that her friend’s brother had attended a hospital appointment on 8 December 2020. The email was then provided as a false alibi in respect of suspected serious offending — investigated at first as conspiracy to murder and ultimately charged as conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm. She pleaded guilty on 12 October 2022 and was sentenced on 8 August 2024 to a £1,000 fine plus costs .
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Convicted (criminal); adjudicated (regulatory), admitted. The conviction is a matter of court record; the regulatory findings rest on the nurse’s own signed admissions in a Consensual Panel Determination.
The charge before the panel mirrored the conviction: that on 12 October 2022 at Wood Green Crown Court she was convicted of dishonestly making a false representation to make gain for self/another or cause loss to other/expose other to risk. The agreed facts set out the hospital-email mechanism described above, and its destination — a false alibi in a case that began as a conspiracy-to-murder investigation. The aggravating factors the panel recorded were blunt: “abuse of a position of trust” and a “serious criminal conviction that is dishonesty related” .
The panel accepted the Consensual Panel Determination agreed between Bukenya and the NMC and found her fitness to practise impaired by reason of the conviction, on public interest grounds only. The parties agreed that the dishonesty was intrinsic and involved abuse of her position as a nurse, but also that it was a single isolated incident: she had taken responsibility, shown developing insight and remorse, and was not at significant risk of repetition. In mitigation the panel credited early admissions, self-referral, apologies, the guilty plea, personal stress and challenging circumstances at the time, and an otherwise unblemished fitness-to-practise history .
On sanction, the panel was satisfied that “a six-month suspension order with no review would be sufficient to mark the seriousness of the conviction and to maintain public confidence” — a formulation that treats the suspension as the register’s final word on the matter .
Public Reaction and Consequences
The consequences run on two tracks. In court: a fraud conviction, a guilty plea, and a fine of £1,000 plus costs imposed on 8 August 2024 — nearly two years after the plea, reflecting the gap between conviction and sentence. Before the regulator: a six-month suspension with no review, concluded without a contested hearing. The case appears in MedicWatch’s listing of nurses suspended in 2026 .
What the public record does not contain is any published account from the criminal proceedings themselves — the alibi investigation’s outcome against the brother, or the wider case, sits outside the determination. This page records only what the fetched regulatory record establishes: the conviction, the email mechanism, and the suspension .
Current Status
Bukenya is a suspended nurse under a six-month order imposed on 19 March 2026 which expires by its own terms with no review hearing. The public-interest-only impairment finding marks the conviction as a matter the register needed to answer for, while the panel’s agreed findings — isolated incident, developing insight, low repetition risk — record why it stopped at six months .
Impact on Their Career/Life
The shape of the case is unusual: a conviction, not an allegation; an email from a position of clinical trust repurposed as an alibi in a violent-crime investigation. The no-review disposal means the suspension lapses without a further hearing, but the conviction itself is spent on no timetable the NMC controls — it is a permanent, checkable entry. The panel’s own assessment isolates the career damage: the dishonesty was “intrinsic”, and it was the position of trust that made the email worth having .