A nurse who mistakenly gave patients a steroid injection instead of a contraceptive injection has avoided suspension by the Nursing and Midwifery Council. A fitness to practise hearing heard how the practice nurse administered the anti-inflammatory Depo-Medrone to two patients who were prescribed the contraceptive Depo-Provera in November 2021. When alerted, she said that she ‘could not be certain’ whether she had given the wrong medication, but suggested that she may have recorded the wrong batch number from a discarded box of the steroid.