Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — review hearing
NMC panel replaces nurse Natasha Russo’s suspension with two-year conditions order
The Nursing and Midwifery Council’s Fitness to Practise Committee has found nurse Natasha Russo’s fitness to practise still impaired and replaced her 12-month suspension with a two-year conditions of practice order, effective 28 August 2024.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 19 July 2024 · Updated 1 September 2026
Conditions on practice (practising with restrictions) — 2 years
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Conditions of practice allow the practitioner to keep working but only subject to specific restrictions — for example, supervision, limits on certain procedures, or required reporting to the regulator.
Concerning Natasha Russo, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 09I1296E).
Decision date: 19 July 2024 · Hearing started 19 July 2024
This sanction period has elapsed.
In plain English
The NMC found that registered nurse Natasha Russo’s fitness to practise remains impaired. Reviewing a 12-month suspension order at a substantive order review hearing, the NMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee replaced it with a conditions of practice order lasting two years, taking effect on 28 August 2024. The case is recorded as a health case. The published record contains the panel’s cover-page decision only; its detailed reasons are not in the public record.
Charges
This is a substantive order review hearing, not a hearing of charges. The published document records the panel’s decision on its cover page only; the original allegations and the panel’s detailed reasons are not in the public record. The case is recorded by the NMC as a health case.
Findings
The panel reviewed an existing suspension order of 12 months and found that Miss Russo’s fitness to practise remains impaired. It replaced the suspension order with a conditions of practice order for two years, to come into effect on 28 August 2024 in accordance with Article 30(1). Miss Russo was not present and not represented at the hearing. The panel’s detailed reasons are not contained in the published document, which sets out the outcome on its cover page only.
Source
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