"A London midwife has been struck off the medical register for inhaling gas and air in empty hospital rooms. Olanike Toye was caught inhaling Entonox, a fast-acting mix of gas and oxygen typically used for short-term pain relief in childbirth, at two hospitals over a six-month period between 2022 and 2023, a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) panel found."
"[We have] concluded that your actions were serious departures from the standards expected of a registered midwife and are fundamentally incompatible with remaining on the register. The panel determined that there are regulatory concerns which raise fundamental questions about your professionalism, honesty, and integrity. It concluded that, if the behaviour were repeated, patients would not be safe and public confidence in the profession and the NMC would be undermined."
Olanike Toye was observed inhaling Entonox, a fast-acting gas-and-oxygen pain-relief mix, while on duty at Lewisham and Chelsea and Westminster hospitals between 2022 and 2023. Witnesses reported finding her in empty labour ward rooms using a mouthpiece attached to Entonox tubing and inhaling the gas fervently on at least one shift. Toye denied using Entonox. An NMC panel, which met in November and January, found the conduct amounted to misconduct, raised serious regulatory concerns about professionalism, honesty and integrity, and judged that patient safety and public confidence would be at risk if the behaviour were repeated. The panel ordered immediate erasure from the register.
Read at www.standard.co.uk
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