Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — substantive hearing
NMC panel strikes off children's nurse Cameron Reid over indecent images convictions
The Nursing and Midwifery Council's Fitness to Practise Committee has struck off children's nurse Cameron William James Reid, who was convicted of making and possessing indecent images of children and possessing an extreme pornographic image.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 15 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 Cameron William James Reid, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 21I0223N).
Decision date: 15 June 2026 · Hearing started 15 June 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Cameron William James Reid, a children's nurse, was convicted in March 2025 of possessing an extreme pornographic image and of making and possessing indecent images of children. The panel found his fitness to practise impaired, accepted a consensual panel determination agreed with the NMC, and imposed a striking-off order. An 18-month interim suspension order covers any appeal period.
Charges
That, being a registered nurse, on 6 March 2025 at the Crown Court in Northern Ireland he was convicted of: possession of an extreme pornographic image, namely a video, contrary to section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008; making an indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph of a child, namely a category A image; making an indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph of a child, namely a category B image; and possession of an indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph of a child, namely a category C image; and that in light of the above his fitness to practise is impaired by reason of his conviction.
Findings
The panel accepted a Consensual Panel Determination agreed between the NMC and Mr Reid. The charge was found proved by way of the certificate of conviction from the Crown Court at Downpatrick. The panel found Mr Reid's fitness to practise currently impaired on both public protection and public interest grounds, determining the convictions were specified offences at the most serious end of the spectrum, attitudinal in nature, not remediated, and with a risk of repetition. It imposed a striking-off order and an interim suspension order for 18 months to cover any appeal period.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
An early guilty plea.
Aggravating factors
The extreme seriousness of the convictions; offending involving indecent images of children is inherently exploitative and raises grave safeguarding concerns; not a single isolated conviction — several separate offences involving different categories of prohibited material, increasing the risk of repetition; the offending is attitudinal in nature, not a remediable clinical failing.
Source
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