Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — substantive hearing
NMC panel strikes off nurse Valeria Hering after police caution for medication theft
The Nursing and Midwifery Council has struck nurse Valeria Hering off the register after a panel found her fitness to practise impaired by a police caution for the theft of medication from the Guernsey hospital where she worked. Two further misconduct charges were not found proved.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 3 July 2026 · Updated 11 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 Valeria Hering, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 16L0034C).
Decision date: 3 July 2026 · Hearing started 3 July 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Valeria Hering, a registered nurse, received a police caution on 1 October 2024 for the theft of five types of medication from the Guernsey hospital where she worked. The panel did not find the two misconduct charges proved. It found her fitness to practise impaired by reason of the caution, noting a lack of insight and a high risk of repetition, and made a striking-off order together with an 18-month interim suspension order.
Charges
The NMC alleged that Ms Hering, a registered nurse: (1) on 1 October 2024 at Guernsey Police Headquarters was cautioned for theft of 5 types of medication contrary to Section 1 of The Theft (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 1983 as amended; (2) on one or more occasions between 18 June 2021 and 5 August 2024 took one or more medications from her workplace without clinical justification; and (3) that her conduct at charge 2 was dishonest in that she took medication from her workplace other than in the proper course of her employment, when she knew or ought to have known she was not entitled to do so. It was alleged that her fitness to practise was impaired by reason of her caution in respect of charge 1 and her misconduct in respect of charges 2 and 3.
Findings
The panel had before it a certificate of caution dated 1 October 2024, signed by Ms Hering, recording her admission to the theft of lidocaine patches, a plaster roll, ibuprofen, sertraline and vitamin D from the Princess Elizabeth Hospital. The panel determined not to find charges 2 and 3 proved, on the basis of relevancy, fairness and a lack of evidence particularising which additional medications were said to have been removed; it did not consider it appropriate to make misconduct findings on the same events for which Ms Hering had been cautioned. Considering impairment as a result of the caution, the panel found all four limbs of the Grant test engaged, and found a lack of insight and a high risk of repetition. 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: no direct patient harm; admitted to the theft to the police, her employers and the NMC at an early stage; and a third factor recorded in the determination as private.
Aggravating factors
The panel took into account the following aggravating features: attitudinal issues and dishonesty; lack of insight and remediation; theft of medication; premeditated; breach of trust.
Source
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