Nyakallo Putsoane
Introduction
Nyakallo Putsoane is a registered adult nurse from Port Talbot who was struck off the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register following a decision dated 17 March 2026. At a substantive order review hearing held that day, the NMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee replaced a 17-month conditions of practice order, imposed in October 2023, with a striking-off order that took effect at the end of 31 March 2026, when the order then in force expired. She was registered with the NMC under PIN 04H0144O. The events underlying the case took place on 16 March 2019 and concerned her care of a single patient, referred to throughout the determination as Patient A; the conduct therefore predated the hearing that ended her registration by seven years, and it is the March 2026 decision that actually removed her from the register.
Background Information
Putsoane was identified in the determination as a registered adult nurse from Port Talbot, practising under NMC PIN 04H0144O. The record does not name her employer, the hospital or ward where the events occurred, or any outcome for Patient A, who is not further identified. What it fixes is the clinical content of the charges: oxygen that was stopped without a GP’s authority, a syringe driver that a patient pulled out, and observations that went unrecorded.
The regulatory process ran far behind the events. The charges were found proved at a substantive hearing in October 2023, more than four years after the shift of 16 March 2019, and the committee responded with a conditions of practice order lasting 17 months. It records no steps between the October 2023 order and the March 2026 review that considered it. By the time of that review, the panel noted, Putsoane had not been in nursing practice for over four years and had not engaged with the NMC.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Adjudicated vs. alleged. The findings against Nyakallo Putsoane were made by an NMC Fitness to Practise Committee on the civil standard (balance of probabilities). They were never criminal charges and were never adjudicated in court.
The charges found proved at the October 2023 substantive hearing concerned events on 16 March 2019. The panel found that Putsoane stopped Patient A’s oxygen “without seeking the authority of a GP”; that she “did not escalate or take appropriate action promptly” after Patient A had pulled out a syringe driver; and that she failed to make adequate records of her observations of Patient A, including not recording that she had removed Patient A’s oxygen and not recording that Patient A had removed the syringe driver. Each limb concerned the same episode of care — oxygen, a pulled-out syringe driver, and the records that should have accompanied them.
The review hearing of 17 March 2026 did not revisit the facts of 2019; it considered whether the impairment identified in 2023 remained. The panel found that Putsoane’s fitness to practise remained impaired. It recorded that she had not engaged with the NMC, had not provided any evidence of insight, remediation or strengthened practice, and had not been in nursing practice for over four years, and it concluded that she remained “liable to repeat matters of the kind found proved”. On that basis, the panel held that a finding of continuing impairment was required on both public protection and public interest grounds, and that a further conditions of practice order would not be sufficient given her continued non-engagement.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The consequence was regulatory rather than reputational in the first instance: the published determination documents no press coverage, no public commentary and no response from Putsoane, whose non-engagement with the regulator left the panel without any evidence of insight, remediation or strengthened practice.
The immediate consequence was the striking-off order itself. The panel concluded that a further conditions of practice order would not be sufficient given her continued non-engagement, and it directed erasure — the regulator’s term for removal from the register. The determination explains the sanction in plain terms: erasure “removes the practitioner from the register”, after which they are “no longer permitted to practise this profession in the UK”. The committee fixed the effective date to follow the order then in force, directing that the striking-off take effect at the end of 31 March 2026, when that order expired.
Current Status
Putsoane has been struck off the NMC register since the end of 31 March 2026 and is no longer permitted to practise as a nurse in the United Kingdom. Erasure is otherwise indefinite: the determination notes that erasure “can be reviewed after a minimum of five years, but is otherwise indefinite”, which places the earliest possible review of her case no sooner than five years after the March 2026 decision. Any such review would consider her circumstances at that time, and nothing in the determination addresses restoration. The determination records no appeal against the committee’s decision.
Impact on Their Career/Life
The striking-off order ended Putsoane’s ability to work as a registered nurse in the United Kingdom. The panel’s finding that she had not been in nursing practice for over four years indicates that her exit from practice was already established before the erasure made it permanent; what the 2026 decision added was finality — removal from the register rather than a further period of conditions.
The findings that supported the outcome — non-engagement with the regulator, no evidence of insight, remediation or strengthened practice, and a continuing risk that she would repeat matters of the kind found proved — are the terms in which her case is now permanently recorded against her name and registration number. The record also fixes its own limits: it does not state where she worked, what became of Patient A, whether she has worked in any capacity since the events of 2019, or anything about her personal circumstances. What it establishes is a defined professional endpoint — struck off from the end of 31 March 2026, reviewable in principle no sooner than five years on, otherwise indefinite.