Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — review hearing
NMC panel strikes off nurse Stefania Pezzi at review over job-application dishonesty
The Nursing and Midwifery Council's Fitness to Practise Committee has replaced a suspension order with a striking-off order for nurse Stefania Pezzi, whose fitness to practise remained impaired after a 2025 finding that she dishonestly omitted a previous role from a job application.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 8 June 2026 · Updated 8 July 2026
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Being struck off (the regulator calls this "erasure") removes the practitioner from the register. They are no longer permitted to practise this profession in the UK. Erasure can be reviewed after a minimum of five years, but is otherwise indefinite.
Concerning Stefania Pezzi, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 04G0051C).
Decision date: 8 June 2026 · Hearing started 8 June 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Stefania Pezzi, a registered nurse in Kent, remained impaired when it reviewed a 12-month suspension order imposed in 2025 for dishonesty in a job application, in which she omitted a previous nursing role and concealed that she had been dismissed and referred to the NMC. The panel found no change since the original hearing — no further insight, remediation or engagement — and noted her registration had lapsed before replacing the suspension with a striking-off order.
Charges
The charges found proved at the original substantive hearing were that Ms Pezzi, a registered nurse, in a June 2021 application form and CV to Superior Healthcare failed to provide her full employment history by omitting her employment with Kent Community Health NHS Trust between January and May 2019, and stated she had stepped back from nursing or taken time off when she had in fact worked as a nurse in that period; and that this conduct was dishonest, in that she sought to conceal that she had not completed her probationary period, had been dismissed by the Trust, and had been referred to the NMC. This review meeting reviewed the resulting order rather than re-opening the facts.
Findings
This was the first review of a 12-month suspension order imposed by a Fitness to Practise Committee on 25 June 2025 for dishonesty in a job application. The panel found Ms Pezzi's fitness to practise remains impaired on both public protection and public interest grounds. It found no change in circumstances since the original hearing: she had not engaged with the NMC, developed further insight, strengthened her practice or provided any remediation. The panel determined that a further suspension order would not be proportionate given her lack of engagement and the seriousness of the dishonesty, and that conditions of practice were not workable. It noted her PIN had lapsed and that she had said she would not undertake further nursing employment. The panel replaced the suspension order with a striking-off order, taking effect at the end of 23 July 2026 under Article 30(1).
Source
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