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 Alexander Robert McMurray, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 14B0390E).

Decision date: 24 March 2026 · Hearing started 9 March 2026 and ended 24 March 2026

In plain English

The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that registered nurse Alexander Robert McMurray made bullying, humiliating and discriminatory comments to several colleagues at a hospital theatre department between November 2019 and April 2020, including age-related harassment of one colleague. The panel decided his fitness to practise is currently impaired and, noting his lack of insight and absence from the hearing, ordered that he be struck off the register. An 18-month interim suspension order was imposed to cover the appeal period.

Charges

Between November 2019 and April 2020, while a Band 6 Theatre Nurse at a Trust hospital, Mr McMurray was alleged to have shouted at and made derogatory remarks to colleagues, including telling Colleague A she should retire because she was 'no use to anyone' (which the panel found amounted to age-related harassment), repeatedly calling Colleague B 'fat' or referring to her weight, telling Colleague C to 'go take your face for a shit' and 'shit rolls down the hill', and calling Colleagues D and E 'fucking useless' and Colleague D a 'clown'. The panel found these comments were bullying, humiliating, undermining and offensive. All charges were found proved except 4b.

Findings

The Fitness to Practise Committee found the charges (other than 4b) proved on the documentary and oral evidence, including hearsay evidence admitted under Rule 31. The panel found Mr McMurray's conduct amounted to misconduct and that his fitness to practise was currently impaired on both public-protection and public-interest grounds, with limbs a, b and c of the Grant test engaged. Noting his absence from the hearing, lack of insight or remediation, and that the misconduct involved multiple incidents over several months, the panel decided that a striking-off order was the only proportionate sanction. An interim suspension order of 18 months was imposed to cover the appeal period.

Mitigating factors

Mr McMurray appears to have worked safely and professionally at Four Seasons Healthcare Group from February 2021 to around August 2023; [private personal information considered by the panel].

Aggravating factors

Multiple instances of misconduct over a period of time; failure to attend this hearing; limited insight; failure to work collaboratively with colleagues.

Source

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