Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — substantive hearing
NMC strikes off Dawn Elaine Sandy over dishonest records and training failures
An NMC panel ordered Dawn Elaine Sandy’s striking off after finding dishonest record keeping, encouragement of false explanations and training failures. Parts of the allegations were not proved.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 7 September 2026 · Updated 22 September 2026
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Concerning Dawn Elaine Sandy, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 75D0960E).
Decision date: 7 September 2026 · Hearing started 1 September 2026 and ended 7 September 2026
In plain English
The NMC found that Dawn Elaine Sandy dishonestly recorded a risk assessment, encouraged a colleague to give false explanations about competency documents, and failed to ensure appropriate training and safety measures. Some parts of the allegations were not proved. The panel ordered striking off after finding current impairment and limited insight, with a separate interim suspension during the appeal period.
Charges
The charges concerned a false January 2020 risk-assessment record, encouraging a colleague to give false information about competency documents, failures to ensure and record staff training and assessments, failure to implement a patient-safety action plan, and dishonesty.
Findings
The panel found dishonest risk-assessment recording, dishonest encouragement of false explanations about competency documents, training and recording failures, and failure to implement a safety action plan. Charges that she encouraged a colleague to say documents had been received were not proved. Concealing missing training records was proved; trying to conceal a known failure to provide training was not. All proved charges amounted to misconduct and current impairment. The panel directed striking off, with a separate 18-month interim suspension pending appeal. The coroner had determined that a dialysis-line disconnection was not the cause of the patient’s death; this decision does not establish death causation. Without an appeal, striking off takes effect 28 days after written service.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
• Long standing career – 45 years with no Fitness to Practise history; • Early admissions to some of the charges in this case; and • The impact and [PRIVATE] of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Aggravating factors
• Abuse of a position of trust; • Deliberate breaches of the Code which recklessly put people receiving care at risk of suffering harm; • Dishonesty; • Limited insight into her failings; and • No evidence of remediation or retraining to address the concerns.
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