Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — substantive hearing
NMC strikes off nurse Juliette Johnson over £39,300 gifts from patient and his wife
A Nursing and Midwifery Council panel has struck registered nurse Juliette Johnson from the register after finding she breached professional boundaries and lacked integrity by accepting £39,300 in monetary gifts, across twelve cheques, from an elderly patient and his wife.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 5 June 2026 · Updated 7 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 Juliette Johnson, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 00Y0167E).
Decision date: 5 June 2026 · Hearing started 1 June 2026 and ended 5 June 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that registered nurse Juliette Johnson's fitness to practise was impaired by reason of misconduct. The panel found she had breached professional boundaries and acted with a lack of integrity by accepting monetary gifts totalling £39,300, in twelve cheques, from an elderly patient and his wife over about two and a half years. It made a striking-off order.
Charges
The charges alleged that Miss Johnson, a registered nurse who had provided community and end-of-life care, had: (1) breached professional boundaries by accepting monetary gifts set out in a schedule of twelve cheques, totalling £39,300, from Patient A and his wife, Person B; (2) failed to declare any or all of those gifts; and (3) acted with a lack of integrity in relation to charges 1 and 2. The panel found charges 1 and 3 proved and charge 2 not proved, accepting that, as she was working privately with the couple when the undeclared cheques were given, she was not obliged to declare them to her agency.
Findings
The panel found that the monies Miss Johnson accepted were gifts and that, by accepting substantial gifts from vulnerable patients over about two and a half years, she breached professional boundaries and acted with a lack of integrity, contrary to the NMC Code, amounting to serious misconduct. Applying the Grant test, it concluded she had placed Patient A and Person B at unwarranted risk of financial harm, brought the profession into disrepute, and breached fundamental tenets of the profession. Although it noted insight in her reflective piece, remorse, testimonials and relevant training, and considered the risk of repetition low, it was not satisfied she would not repeat her actions with other vulnerable patients given the attitudinal nature of the integrity failing. It found her fitness to practise currently impaired on both public protection and public interest grounds.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
The panel took into account the following mitigating features: early admission of some of the facts; developing insight; relevant training courses; and a reflective piece.
Aggravating factors
The panel took into account the following aggravating features: abuse of a position of trust; deliberate and multiple breaches of the Code; a pattern of misconduct over a considerable period of time; and the vulnerability of Patient A and Person B.
Source
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