Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — substantive hearing
Struck off the register
The regulator’s term: erasure
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 Jayne Carson, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 15I0766S).
Decision date: 16 February 2026 · Hearing started 12 February 2026 and ended 16 February 2026
In plain English
The NMC found that Jayne Carson's fitness to practise was impaired after proved findings that she misappropriated money, falsified records and signatures, and made misleading patient-fund records. The panel also found a private health charge proved, while one dishonesty charge was not proved. It imposed a striking-off order and an 18-month interim suspension order.
Charges
The charges alleged that Jayne Carson stole or misappropriated money from social care, self-care and patient funds, falsified signatures and receipts, and made misleading patient-fund records in April 2022. The NMC also alleged that she signed another staff member's signature in a controlled drugs book, that this was dishonest, and included a private health charge.
Findings
The panel found charges 1 to 10 and the private health charge 12 proved, and found charge 11 not proved. It found dishonest conduct in relation to the patient-fund and receipt charges, found that the controlled-drugs-book signature charge was proved but dishonest intent for that charge was not proved, and found current impairment by reason of misconduct and health.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
The panel recorded one private mitigating feature.
Aggravating factors
The panel identified abuse of a position of trust, conduct putting patients and colleagues at risk of harm, deliberate breaches of the Code, a pattern of misconduct over time, limited insight and no evidence of remediation, premeditated behaviour, and damage to the nursing profession.
Source
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