Eliot Aluge

Introduction

Eliot Aluge was a mental health nurse working in London, registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) under number 22H0597E. In June 2026 the NMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee struck him off the register — the regulator’s term is erasure — after finding that, while a vulnerable woman was an inpatient under his care, he entered into a sexual relationship with her, sexually assaulted her on and near the ward, asked her for money and contacted her repeatedly without any clinical justification. The decision followed a substantive hearing that ran from 25 September 2025 to 24 June 2026.

Background Information

Aluge worked as a nurse in mental health services in London. The determination that publicly documents his case identifies him by his NMC registration number, 22H0597E, and records that the concerns centred on his conduct toward a single patient, referred to throughout the proceedings as Patient A. Patient A had been admitted to hospital under the Mental Health Act, meaning she was a detained inpatient receiving care for her mental health at the time of the events. The panel described her as a highly vulnerable patient. The public record does not otherwise detail Aluge’s exact employer, role history, or date of registration.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Adjudicated vs. alleged. The findings against Eliot Aluge 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; Aluge has no criminal convictions recorded in this determination.

The NMC’s charges against Aluge, as summarised in the determination, were that he, a registered nurse, having entered into a sexual relationship with Patient A, failed to disclose the relationship to his manager and/or employer; that, whilst Patient A was an inpatient, he took her to a nearby park and kissed and touched her under her clothes, and entered her room on the ward and exposed himself to her, asking her to perform oral sex; that he asked Patient A for money; that he undertook observations on Patient A, including while she was taking a bath, that should have been undertaken by a female member of staff; and that he obtained her telephone number, arranged to meet her and rang her on multiple occasions without clinical justification. The charges further alleged that his conduct breached professional boundaries and was sexually motivated.

The panel found charges 1 to 9 proved, several by admission, except charge 9 in relation to charge 3. The pattern the panel accepted spanned several months and involved pursuing a detained patient who was entirely dependent on the staff caring for her: meeting her outside the ward, physical and sexual contact, exposure on the ward itself, a request for money, and persistent personal contact through her telephone. It also found that Aluge had undertaken intimate observations of Patient A — including while she bathed — that should properly have been carried out by a female member of staff.

Not every allegation survived scrutiny. Charges 10 to 15, which alleged dishonesty towards an agency, fell away after the panel refused to admit hearsay evidence and found no case to answer on them. Those findings form part of the record alongside the proved charges: they were not proved, and Aluge was not sanctioned for them.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The immediate consequence was regulatory rather than penal. Having found the charges proved, the panel considered whether Aluge’s fitness to practise was impaired and concluded that it was, on both public protection and public interest grounds. It identified a real risk of repetition, given what it assessed as insufficient insight into his conduct. It imposed a striking-off order — removing Aluge from the register so that he is no longer permitted to practise as a nurse in the UK — together with an 18-month interim suspension order to cover the period while the decision takes full effect.

In aggravation, the panel cited that the charges found proved included sexual misconduct with a patient; abuse of a position of trust; that Patient A suffered emotional and psychological harm; a pattern of misconduct over several months; limited insight, given the length of time Aluge had to consider his actions; that the victim was an exceptionally vulnerable person receiving mental health care; predatory behaviour evidenced by repeatedly pursuing Patient A; personal gain; and untruthful evidence given under affirmation at the fact-finding stage. In mitigation, it credited his early admission of some of the facts, his apologies to those affected, his engagement with the fitness to practise process, and relevant training courses he had undertaken, while noting there was no evidence that this had been put into effect.

Current Status

As of the determination dated 24 June 2026, Eliot Aluge stands erased from the NMC register — struck off — and may not work as a nurse in the UK. Erasure is otherwise indefinite: it can be reviewed only after a minimum of five years, and any restoration application would be a matter for the regulator. The 18-month interim suspension order runs alongside the striking-off decision. The record does not state that any separate criminal proceedings were brought against him.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The striking-off ended Aluge’s ability to practise as a registered nurse in the United Kingdom, closing the profession to him indefinitely subject to the five-year review threshold. The panel’s finding that he gave untruthful evidence under affirmation at the fact-finding stage, combined with its assessment of his limited insight, was central to its conclusion that there was a real risk of repetition, which weighed directly against a lesser sanction such as conditions of practice. For Patient A, the panel found that she suffered emotional and psychological harm from the conduct of a nurse in whom a detained, exceptionally vulnerable patient should have been able to place unconditional trust. The case also removed charges 10 to 15 from the record entirely, as the panel found no case to answer on the alleged dishonesty towards an agency.

Sources

• MedicWatch, “Eliot Aluge — Struck off the register · 24 June 2026,” 24 June 2026.source