Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — substantive hearing
NMC panel strikes off nurse Ffion Roberts over patient-care failings and colleague bullying
The Nursing and Midwifery Council's Fitness to Practise Committee has struck nurse Ffion Wyn Roberts off the register, finding she reduced patients' fluids without clinical justification, intimidated patients, and belittled and racially discriminated against colleagues.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 8 June 2026 · Updated 8 July 2026
Erasure (struck off the register)
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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 Ffion Wyn Roberts, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 86C1039E).
Decision date: 8 June 2026 · Hearing started 3 June 2026 and ended 8 June 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Mrs Roberts, a registered nurse, committed serious misconduct, including reducing patients' IV fluids and bladder irrigation without clinical justification, intimidating patients, and belittling and racially discriminating against colleagues. It found her fitness to practise impaired, citing deep-seated attitudinal concerns and no insight or remediation, and directed that she be struck off the register.
Charges
The charges found proved concerned Mrs Roberts's conduct as a registered nurse at a Nuffield Health hospital. On clinical matters she instructed staff to reduce or stop IV fluids and removed Patient A's IV fluids without clinical justification (that patient later suffered a vasovagal episode), slowed or stopped Patient B's bladder irrigation and did not complete overnight observations, removed an observation machine from a patient, and refused Patient E her prescribed tramadol, giving paracetamol instead. She removed Patient F's urine bottle overnight and told him to walk to the toilet, conduct intended to intimidate him. Towards colleagues she questioned their practice, moved equipment, did not complete or delegated her duties, made belittling remarks, shushed a colleague, and mocked a colleague's accent; this and related conduct were found to bully, belittle or intimidate colleagues and to discriminate against two colleagues because of race. Some charges, including alleged dishonesty and derogatory comments about international nurses, were found not proved.
Findings
The panel found that the proved facts amounted to serious misconduct spanning clinical failings, behaviour towards patients and behaviour towards colleagues, in breach of the NMC Code. It found that patients were put at risk and caused physical and emotional harm, that Mrs Roberts had abused a senior position of trust, and that there were deep-seated attitudinal concerns shown through a pattern of belittling and intimidating conduct. Noting her lack of engagement and absence of insight, remorse or remediation, the panel concluded there was a risk of repetition and that her fitness to practise was currently impaired on both public protection and public interest grounds.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
The panel took into account the following mitigating feature: possible health mitigation.
Aggravating factors
The panel took into account the following aggravating features: abuse of a senior position of trust; conduct which deliberately or recklessly put people receiving care at risk of suffering harm; conduct which resulted in actual harm caused to patients; numerous deliberate breaches of the Code; a pattern of misconduct over a period of time; failure to attend hearings, or to engage in the Fitness to Practise (FtP) process; absence of insight and remediation; failure to work collaboratively with colleagues.
Source
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