Tolulope Edith Imoleayo Akeredolu
Introduction
Tolulope Edith Imoleayo Akeredolu is a United Kingdom adult nurse who worked as a Band 5 nurse at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust between December 2017 and December 2019, and then at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust from December 2019 to May 2023. In May 2026 an NMC Fitness to Practise Committee found a series of medication, record-keeping and infection-control failures proved across the two trusts, determined that her fitness to practise was impaired by lack of competence, and imposed a six-month suspension order with a review, plus an eighteen-month interim suspension covering any appeal .
Background Information
The charges alleged a failure to demonstrate the standards of knowledge, skill and judgement required to practise without supervision across her Band 5 posts at the two London trusts. The panel treated the proved facts as a fair sample of her work between December 2017 and January 2021, spanning documentation and record keeping, medication administration and infection control. Several charges were found not proved or dismissed for no case to answer, and the determination records the proved and unproved lists separately .
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Adjudicated (regulatory). The findings are the NMC panel’s conclusions on the civil standard; the case was decided as lack of competence, with several charges not proved or dismissed.
The proved facts formed a long list of basic-practice failures. They included failing medication competency assessments; failing to complete a capability action plan; rinsing and reusing a tracheostomy suction catheter; incorrectly completing Glasgow Coma Scale scores; failing to change a VAC collection canister; failing to follow the blood transfusion administration and traceability process; administering intravenous paracetamol contrary to an oral prescription to a patient under the weight threshold; countersigning for an Oxycodone dose ten times the prescribed dose; administering intravenous Vancomycin at an incorrect rate; recording an incorrect Fentanyl concentration on a patient-controlled analgesia syringe; delaying insulin administration; administering Glucojuice to a hypoglycaemic patient with a nasogastric tube in situ; and two admitted infection-control failures involving total parenteral nutrition .
The panel found the proved facts amounted to lack of competence and that fitness to practise was currently impaired on both public-protection and public-interest grounds, citing insufficient insight and a risk of repetition. Its aggravating findings noted prolonged and sustained issues in areas of basic nursing practice over multiple years across two trusts — even though no harm was caused, significant errors were made — a lack of insight, including refusing an offered move to a less stressful ward, and contradictions between her own contemporaneous written reflections acknowledging failings and the evidence she gave the panel denying matters admitted earlier. The panel decided a conditions-of-practice order could not be formulated and imposed a six-month suspension with a review, plus the eighteen-month interim order . In mitigation it credited that personal issues played a part at the time and a willingness to learn shown through online training, though it considered that willingness limited because she had not reflected on how to embed the learning into practice .
Public Reaction and Consequences
The consequences were the six-month suspension with a review hearing, and the interim suspension covering the appeal period. The determination records no press coverage and no public statement by Akeredolu; the official record is the panel’s proved-and-unproved charge list, its lack-of-competence determination, and its reasoning that conditions of practice were unworkable because of the insight findings. The case’s scale — a proved list running from a reused suction catheter to a ten-times Oxycodone countersigning error, sustained across two trusts over four years — is what the panel weighed against the absence of actual patient harm in landing on the six-month term .
Current Status
As determined on 13 May 2026, Tolulope Akeredolu is suspended from the NMC register for six months, with a review before the order expires and an eighteen-month interim suspension covering any appeal. The charges found not proved or dismissed for no case to answer form no part of the basis for the order, and are recorded as such in the determination. The panel’s finding that a conditions order could not be formulated at the time — resting on the insufficient-insight and risk-of-repetition conclusions — is part of the official record . Her current registration status can be checked on the official NMC register .
Impact on Their Career/Life
The suspension removes Akeredolu from practice for six months and places a multi-year, two-trust lack-of-competence finding on her record, anchored to medication administration, documentation and infection control. The determination’s structure — a proved list of significant errors alongside an express finding that no harm was caused, and written reflections that contradicted her own panel evidence — captures both why the panel found impairment and why it stopped short of erasure. The review hearing will determine whether the insight and remediation the panel found missing have since developed .