A nurse accused of misleading colleagues and behaving unprofessionally has been cleared of misconduct.

Ernest Mutanga, a vulnerable adults safeguarding nurse for the North Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, appeared before a Nursing and Midwifery Council to face eight charges.

The panel found two of the charges were proved, but ruled his actions didn’t warrant punishment.

He admitted failing to report all of the concerns highlighted during a monitoring visit to Ramsey Manor care home, in Ramsey, in February 2012. He also failed to take sufficient steps to close safeguarding cases he had been allocated.

Further charges were not proven.

He was accused of behaving unprofessionally when he failed to appear at a scheduled appointment at Wimpole Road Surgery, Colchester.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council dismissed the mix-up as a simple mistake.

The judgement said: “The panel consider any weaknesses in the report do not constitute failure so serious as to consider them to be misconduct.”