Petros Mouskafidis

Introduction

Petros Mouskafidis is a registered nurse who was on the Nurses part of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register, sub part 1, as an adult nurse, level 1, holding PIN 16D0763C and based in Northern Ireland. On 1 April 2026, a panel of the NMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee found his fitness to practise impaired by reason of a conviction and made a striking-off order, recorded by MedicWatch as erasure. The conviction was for intentional exposure under Article 70 of the Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008.

Background Information

The determination records his registration as Nurses part of the register, sub part 1 — RN1: Adult nurse, level 1 — under PIN 16D0763C, with Northern Ireland as his relevant location. The published record does not name his employer; its only workplace detail is the panel’s finding that, at the time of the 2021 incident, he was driving to his place of work at the Care Home and was wearing his uniform. His MedicWatch practitioner profile lists the erasure decided on 1 April 2026, following a substantive hearing, as his most recent published outcome.

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; nothing here is a criminal record unless the determination itself states one — except that this case does rest on a criminal conviction, stated as such.

The single charge was that, on 8 May 2024, Mouskafidis was convicted of an offence committed on 2 November 2021, worded in the determination as one in which he intentionally exposed his genitals ‘intending that someone would see them and be caused alarm or distress contrary to Article 70 of The Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008’. The panel received a certificate of conviction dated 20 March 2025 and found the facts proved under Rule 31(2) of the NMC’s Fitness to Practise Rules 2004, which makes such a certificate conclusive proof. The NMC had opened a referral on 24 April 2025 under Article 22(6) of the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001.

Police documentation summarised in the determination describes what happened. At about 1935hrs on 2 November 2021, a woman walking up the Woodvale road in Belfast towards the Ardoyne roundabout with her friend and dog crossed the road; a vehicle stopped to let her cross, then pulled up beside her. Its driver put the interior light on, and she saw that he had his penis out of his trousers and was making a masturbation motion with his right hand while making eye contact with her. Distressed, she walked back across the road to tell her friend, and the vehicle drove on towards the Ardoyne roundabout and down the Crumlin road. The incident resulted in his conviction on 8 May 2024.

The substantive meeting was held virtually on 1 April 2026 after notice was emailed to his registered address on 3 March 2026. Finding the conviction proved, the panel went on to find his fitness to practise currently impaired: the public was put at risk, the victim — a member of the public — experienced emotional harm and distress, and the conviction breached the fundamental tenets of the nursing profession and brought its reputation into disrepute. The panel bore in mind that Mouskafidis is on the sexual offenders register for five years, that he had not engaged with the NMC, and that there was no evidence of insight, remorse or remediation, leaving a risk of repetition and a risk to the public.

On sanction, the panel found aggravating features: predatory behaviour, in that he initially drove past the victim before driving back up to them; pre-meditated behaviour; the fact that he was in uniform and driving to the Care Home where he worked; and an absence of any insight. No mitigating features were identified. A caution would not protect the public and no workable conditions could be formulated; a suspension would be insufficient given his lack of engagement and no realistic prospect of safe return, and it considered it inappropriate that he would no longer be subject to the Sex Offenders Register requirements once a suspension was complete. The panel determined that this was a ‘highest risk case’ under the NMC guidance and that nothing short of a striking-off order would suffice.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The published record contains no press coverage, no victim statements and no public comment from Mouskafidis; MedicWatch presents only the regulator’s published findings and does not editorialise them. The concrete consequence is erasure: the panel directed the registrar to strike him off the register, and his MedicWatch profile lists that erasure as his most recent outcome. MedicWatch published its editorial page on the case on 1 April 2026 and last checked the data on 22 September 2026.

Current Status

Mouskafidis is struck off the register by decision of 1 April 2026. Because a striking-off order cannot take effect until the 28-day appeal period ends, the panel imposed an interim suspension order of 18 months in the meantime; if no appeal is made, it will be replaced by the substantive striking-off order 28 days after the decision is sent to him in writing. His MedicWatch profile shows the status line ‘Registration status not yet verified’, and readers are directed to the official NMC register for current registration details. No appeal or restoration application appears in the published record.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The striking-off order ends Mouskafidis’s ability to work as a registered nurse in the United Kingdom, and the NMC register will show him as struck off. The panel noted the hardship this would inevitably cause but found it outweighed by the seriousness of the conviction and the public interest. Restoration after erasure is a deliberately high bar, and the panel found no realistic possibility that he would address its concerns enough to return to practise safely. The record contains no information about any employment after the erasure.

Sources

• *MedicWatch, “Petros Mouskafidis: NMC striking-off decision following conviction”, 1 April 2026 — source
• *MedicWatch, “Petros Mouskafidis: NMC striking-off decision following conviction | Nursing and Midwifery Council 16D0763C | MedicWatch” — source
• *Nursing and Midwifery Council, “Fitness to Practise Committee: Substantive Meeting, Thursday, 1 April 2026” — source