Susan Sanni

Introduction

Susan Sanni is a nurse who was registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), the professional regulator for nurses in the United Kingdom, holding registration number 07H2082E. She had accumulated a previous unblemished nursing career of some twenty years and worked at St Mary’s Nursing Home, where she acted as an experienced Nurse in Charge and, at night, as the “sole nurse on duty” responsible for the residents in her care.

That career ended in September 2026, when an NMC panel ordered her striking off the register after finding that she had slept on duty and dishonestly signed residents’ care records in advance during a night shift in July 2022. The panel found her fitness to practise impaired by serious misconduct, while rejecting one related allegation about hourly checks as not proved.

Background Information

The NMC maintains the register of nurses entitled to practise in the United Kingdom and sets the professional standards, the Code, that registered nurses must follow. When a nurse’s fitness to practise is called into question, the allegations are heard by a panel, which decides the facts on the balance of probabilities before going on to decide whether the nurse’s fitness to practise is currently impaired and what sanction, if any, is required to protect the public.

The events in Susan Sanni’s case took place during a night shift at St Mary’s Nursing Home on 14 July 2022. The allegations concerned signing residents’ repositioning charts and daily notes in advance, “sleeping while on duty”, and related dishonesty. The residents affected were vulnerable people receiving care, and Sanni was the only nurse present on the unit that night.

The case took years to reach its conclusion: the substantive hearing began on 8 December 2025 and ended on 9 September 2026. In the meantime Sanni had been subject to earlier interim conditions, which the panel’s eventual order later replaced.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Adjudicated vs. alleged. The findings in this case were made on the balance of probabilities by an NMC regulatory panel; they are not criminal convictions. The allegation that Susan Sanni knew care staff had not conducted hourly checks was not proved, the panel finding that responsibility for those checks was unclear.

The charges put to the panel concerned signing residents’ repositioning charts and daily notes in advance, sleeping while on duty, and related dishonesty during the night shift of 14 July 2022. One element was amended along the way: the daily-notes charge was changed to remove the suggestion that care staff had completed those entries. A separate charge, that Sanni had known care staff had not conducted hourly checks, remained to be proved.

On the substance, the panel found the core of the case proved. It concluded that Sanni slept on duty during the shift and that she dishonestly signed inaccurate records, knowing that a resident had not been repositioned. The dishonesty was not an isolated slip: the panel described a systematic practice of completing documentation in advance, adopted to allow herself and others to sleep while residents slept unmonitored, and it characterised the behaviour as deliberate and premeditated.

The hourly-checks allegation failed, however. The panel did not find proved the charge that Sanni had known care staff had not conducted their hourly checks, because responsibility for carrying out those checks was unclear on the evidence. That finding did not alter the outcome on the charges it did prove.

Having found the facts proved, the panel determined that the conduct amounted to serious misconduct and that Sanni’s fitness to practise was currently impaired. It found insufficient insight and remediation that was not adequately targeted at the issues in the case, notwithstanding positive subsequent practice and some remorse.

Public Reaction and Consequences

In reaching its impairment conclusion, the panel placed weight on the breach of trust involved. Sanni had abused her position as an experienced Nurse in Charge and sole nurse on duty, and her conduct had deliberately put vulnerable people receiving care at direct risk of suffering harm. The panel also identified deliberate breaches of the Code and attitudinal issues towards professionalism.

Matters were put in mitigation: Sanni had made early admissions to some of the facts, had a previous unblemished nursing career of twenty years, and had demonstrated some remorse. There was evidence that she had worked safely and professionally as a registered nurse since the events, some training evidenced by certificates, although the panel noted this was not targeted and did not fully address the issues, and no repeated incidents since the original concerns. Against this stood the premeditated dishonesty, the risk to vulnerable residents, and the insufficient insight the panel had identified.

Current Status

On 9 September 2026 the panel ordered striking off. Erasure means Sanni’s name is removed from the NMC register, so she may no longer work as a registered nurse in the United Kingdom. The panel also imposed an 18-month interim suspension covering the appeal period; this replaces the earlier interim conditions and gives way to the substantive striking-off order if no appeal is made. Her current registration status can be checked on the official NMC register.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The striking-off order brings a twenty-year unblemished nursing career to an end and removes Sanni’s ability to practise as a registered nurse in the UK.

The panel accepted that Sanni had worked safely and professionally in her role since the events and had shown some remorse, but it concluded that her insight and remediation remained insufficient. It was that deficiency, rather than the absence of subsequent good practice, that led the panel to impose the most serious sanction available to it.

Sources

• MedicWatch, “NMC ordered Susan Sanni’s striking off over dishonest care records and sleeping on duty,” 9 September 2026.source