Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — substantive hearing
Erasure (struck off the register)
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What does “struck off the register” mean?
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 Yvonne Jane Kearsey, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 00D0464E).
Decision date: 13 February 2026 · Hearing started 11 February 2026 and ended 13 February 2026
In plain English
The NMC found that Mrs Yvonne Jane Kearsey, a registered adult nurse, failed to provide adequate care to three vulnerable care home residents in 2021, with multiple failings in record keeping, incident reporting and care planning. The panel found 17 charges proved, found her fitness to practise impaired, and concluded she had provided no evidence of insight or remediation. A striking-off order was imposed on 13 February 2026.
Charges
Between February and April 2021, Mrs Kearsey failed to provide adequate care to three vulnerable care home residents, including failures in record keeping, completing DATIX incident reports, wound management documentation, and appropriate care planning. Multiple charges of misconduct were proved across three residents.
Findings
The panel found 17 charges of misconduct proved across three vulnerable residents. It found Mrs Kearsey's fitness to practise currently impaired. She did not engage with the proceedings, failed to comply with undertakings, and provided no evidence of insight, reflection or remediation since the events in 2021. The panel determined a striking-off order was the only appropriate and proportionate sanction.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
• Early admissions at local level • Some level of apology at local level • There was some evidence that the Home environment was challenging and going through a transition of ownership which meant the appropriate policies that may have supported Mrs Kearsey were not in place
Aggravating factors
• There is a pattern of misconduct • Failure to comply with the undertakings • Failure to engage with these proceedings • Limited evidence of insight into failings • A pattern of misconduct over a period of time • Conduct which put patients at risk of suffering harm • The misconduct relates to vulnerable residents
Source
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